12 x 12 x 7 meters.
8 photo works measuring 4 x 4 meters.
8 video/film works projected on eight 3 x 4 meter retro screens.
Music by Stefan Smagghe, Belgium.

2002 Installations:
Baudelo Park - Gent, Belgium.
Noord Brabants Museum - Den Bosch, Netherlands.
Hasselt, Belgium.
Abdijplein - Middelburg, Netherlands.

Video Installation, 10 minutes
Paul de Nooijer & Menno de Nooijer, July 2002.

Sound design Peter Flamman.
Make up Mireille Hoetelmans.
Production Françoise de Nooijer.

100 YEARS OF BEAUTY is a visual investigation into the similarities and differences between people aged from 0 to 100 years old. It depicts life as a cycle and shows the development of a child (with little experience, but still open and innocent), via adulthood (having gained experience, now closed and reserved), through to old age (once again open and innocent). The aim of the project is to demonstrate the beauty of inner growth and the unique auras of one hundred individuals. The oldest person to be portrayed was born in 1902 and the youngest in 2002. Everyone breathes in and then out again. On breathing in, the blurred image comes into focus, and on breathing out, it becomes blurred once again. The images are projected on a, moving, thin piece of fabric and are accompanied by the sound of breathing.