Fransje Killaars often uses readymade fabrics in her work. She sees them as linked to cultural identities, lifestyle and an image of the times and thus implicitly have social and political connotations.

Fransje Killaars Paravent 2009 diverse fabrics on wood and Fransje Killaars Shelter Dress 2007 cotton metal wood

Usually these are bold and fluorescent colours but in 'Shelter Dress' her palette consists of muted and tonal tones. In several of her spatial textile installations, she applies camouflage fabrics that take on an extra charge in our time of crisis and war.

In 'Study for Caryatids', four figures in military fabrics carry crossed planks on which another figure stands in a flamenco dress, 'Shelter Dress' consists of a round base with camouflage fabrics on which stands a 1970s fashion dress. As a contrast, paintings on paper in bright colours from Killaars' installation 'The Intuition' in which a kneeling white and black figure are joined by a brightly coloured strip hang on the walls.