The internationally prize-winning artist Fiona Tan (Indonesia, 1966) is a good friend of De Pont, where she had her first major exhibition in the Netherlands in 2003 and is now represented in the collection with a broad range of work. For her second exhibition in Tilburg, the museum's recently opened new wing has been transformed into an actual movie theater. Being shown here is the feature-length film Ascent, which Tan compiled as a montage of more than 4000 photographs of Mount Fuji, which were provided by the public or selected from the collection of the Izu Photo Museum in Japan. No mountain has been photographed as frequently as Mount Fuji: from all sides, from a close proximity, from a distance and from above, at every moment of the day and in every season. Venerated as a god and used as a symbol of the nation-state Japan, the volcano has mythical meaning. Mount Fuji is both an icon and a cliché, in roughly the same way that windmills and wooden shoes have this status with respect to the Netherlands. read more