Artist statement
Artist statement
Through diverse media (paper cut out silhouettes, puppetplay, stop motion animation and textbased shadowplays) I am looking for ways the shadow could serve as a metaphor for an alternative view on belonging, migration, the myth of diversity and identity and coloniality all entangled with European Colonial history.
In my paper-cut silhouettes I am using the method of collage, to combine various fragments of tekst en images from different archives, as newspapers, scientific articles, musea or private collections, all connected to the cultural archive (Edvard Said/Gloria Wekker), influenced by the European colonial past of exploitation and social discrimination. My special interest in that has immateriel heritage as folk-songs, sayings and stories.
In my practice I am oscillating between moments of solitair contemplation with visual playtime and more social moments of sharing of knowledge and collaborations with other artists, researchers or participants of workshops.
Publications:
Publications
Karbon Arnhem Files #5: Wanneer stopt toen (2015)
Text: Sanne Oorthuizen, Hypatia Vourloumis, Anneke Ingwersen, Agung Kurniawan
Lay out: Robert Milne
From a series of editions
Letters (2013)
Full Title; Letters / Correspondence between participants of the class Occupation / Evacuation / Transmission
Design: Foundland
Publisher: If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your recolution
Gap 3 (2008)
Text: o.a. Gudrun Bott and Marcus Lütkemeyer
Design: Jeremy Jansen, Werkplaats Typografie
Publisher: Schloss Ringenberg
News
How to create a dialogue about the colonial heritage?
Often I ask myself what my personal biografical connection to the European Colonial past and its continuation in the here and now, precisely is as
Will Regentrude’s help decolonize the heat?
At the end of the hottest summer ever, in 2023, when the media were dominated by feeds about fire, drought or floods the German fairy tale about ‘Die Regentrude’ written by Theodor Storm came back to my mind.
Helpen Regentrude’s hitte te dekoloniseren?
2023: Weer een zomer waarin hitte records in de hele wereld worden gebroken, droogte afgewisseld wordt met hevige regen, met alle rampzalige gevolgen vandien.
Als sinds een tijd zoek ik naar de bedoeling van mijn onderzoek naar kolonialiteit van Europa, respectieve Nederland, en de doorwerkingen en sporen ervan in het nu. Hoe kan ik met mijn toegenomen kennis over de machtsstructuren niet alleen naar het verleden blijven staren maar vooruitkijkend iets ten goede veranderen? Waarvoor wil ik mij inzetten? Kunnen de Regentrude’s mij hierin helpen?
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