From manga to Marge, the Girl with the Pearl is an experience

An onion with a blue headband, Marge Simpson, a cat and Japanese manga – digitalised portraits inspired by Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring swirl around the walls. Nearly 3,500 people submitted their versions of the girl to the Mauritshuis, and 128 of them appear in the video, a seven-minute sidebar to the Fabrique’s Dutch Masters’ show in the capital’s Westerpark. Or maybe she never existed at all… but her popularity knows no boundaries.” Dorien van den Bosch brought her tiny crocheted girl to the premiere. “I went for the girl, and gave her an ecstasy pill as an earring instead.” It took the production team at addikt.tv nearly six months to complete the compilation, the first-ever Fabrique experience to be made outside France.