The ReCollection series has its origins in Faassen's lifelong habit – and a general human urge – to collect and possess things and memories that impress us. Faassen transfers this practice to photography and captures and reinterprets historical objects such as vases, marbles, ceramics and artefacts that once belonged to museums, were coveted by collectors, stolen by nations or painted by artists.
By boxing these objects, making them all the same size and presenting them through a layer of craquelé, so that they remain just out of reach, like as memories, Faassen performs a kind of artistic ‘acquisition’ of these objects and creates his very own ReCollection. He does not own the objects themselves but collects them anew by translating them into his own aesthetic language. The final layer of craquelé, Faassen's characteristic technique, symbolises the traces left by time and raises questions about the right to acquire and possess.