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.