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Three elongated rows of used crates. Each row one crate higher each time. With these simple means, Hester Oerlemans provided the schoolyard of the 's-Gravendreef College in Leidschenveen with a special place. Especially for the students of the school. To chill out on between classes.

By placing the crates upside down and then filling them with concrete, an even seating surface was obtained. As additional gadgets, the artist poured electric cables, a radio with USB connection and two sound boxes into the concrete. This allows the students to play their favorite music to each other.

All those crates stacked together make a monumental abstract sculpture, remotely reminiscent of the minimalist work of American sculptors of the 1960s, such as the world-famous Donald Judd. And although Oerlemans strives for simplification in her work, she is certainly not a minimalist in the traditional sense.

In all her paintings, installations and works in public space, Oerlemans shows us her vision of everyday reality, the art world and her personal surroundings. Sometimes critical, often poetic. With great ease, she mixes divergent worlds. For example, she recreated iconic chair designs in balloons. And with drawings and paintings of rows of colorful beds, she addresses the refugee crisis. She unravels reality in such a way that there is always a tantalizing tension between that which you recognize and that which arouses alienation.

Stand with reused beer crates is obviously a fat nod to the students. Drinking alcohol under the age of 18 is not allowed, but sitting on the empty crates is fine. In any case, the enthusiasm among students to use the interactive stand is no less. They regularly perch on it en masse.