Angels of Amsterdam convinces with 4 centuries of women's lives

If you get the urge to run your finger through the candle flame for a moment, a VR installation is already almost successful. Not only because of its technical prowess, but also because it convinces as a place to bivouac for half an hour.

I am standing at the bar of a seventeenth-century Amsterdam pub. There is buzz, music, a bartender who is not letting herself get off the hook. But above all, there are four women willing to share their life stories with me if I stare at them long enough. And what ...