I have been in between houses for a while, sharing spaces that were not mine. Sharing houses meant that my tea was not in its right place, it was organised by other people. A home is where I feel like I fit right in, a place where there are no posters on the wall. Where things are organised nad walls are clean. A place that is my cup of tea.
Installation
Milky Oolong tea
2018
For 30 days, from Saturday 19th of October until Sunday 17th of November I will count the amount of times I touch someone skin to skin.
In this time period I will note the amount of touches.
At the end of the 30 day period I will write a reflection on this exercise.
Installation
Marker
2019
Is it possible to graduate on my own terms? There are two events in my life that have shaped me: My relationship with my dad, and my path within the institution of school.
For the most part, my father has not been a part of my life. He has favoured landscapes and climbing and has structurally put me in second place. Because of this I have been trying to find validation from others and from myself.
I have spent a long time in the educational system. I have been kicked out of two different schools because I wanted to change their rigid systems, and I have always had the feeling that I do not have individual choice.
So why am I still trying to graduate from a higher education institution? Because I think this is the only way I know how to validate myself. To find my merit I need this stamp of approval, a diploma, to feel like I matter. Having said that, can I pave my path in an institution and graduate on my own terms?
Inside the Willem de Kooning Academy I have my room and I have been working there for almost two months. This room contains notes that I have been writing every day for at least two hours. Each note is a part of what I need as an individual to validate myself.
I invited people into my room to share my personal story and my vulnerability. This led me to discover that I am not the only one looking for this validation inside the institution of school.
Because of these conversations I have concluded that I cannot receive validation from the institution of school: I am the only one that can validate myself and make me feel that I matter. Whether I graduate or not remains to be seen.
Installation
2142 A6 pages, Handwritten text
2017
This is part of the most boring artwork that was shown in public space and at the exhibition “Waar is de mens?” (Where is humanity?).
Signs
Print on wood, Selection: 7/13
2017
Liquid
Invisible
Seeing yourself
Through
In, if the light shines upon it.
Wet
Soft fingertips
If you linger
Too long
Tangible
It often seems blue
Or Green
Or Gray
Cold
And then warm
And then cold again
Blue lips
Invisible humidity
Something slips past your toes
An inhabitant that does not feel the cold
nor wet
And could solely recognize invisibility
Installation
Written text, textile, pebbles
In collaboration with Romina Ciaffi
2019
’The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distance. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the color blue.’
-Rebecca Solnit
Behind the edge of the world there is a place where I as a kid thought all of us came from. Before birth we lived in Oceanië. An underwater world where everyting is blue, not only visually but audible blue. This installation is a reflection of Oceanië, a search for the feeling of blue.
Sound: based on the lightwave of the colour blue, 610Hz Projection: based on the movement of water at 610Hz Landscape: photographic collection of blue objects
Installation
Projection, Sound, Sculpture
2016
To me, landscapes fall into a system of repetition. To illustrate this idea I made an exercise attempting to define the most boring spot in Zuiderpark in Rotterdam. Every spot is a repetition of another interchangeable spot.
Installation
Slide projection, photography, text
2017
