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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

Sonsbeek 20-24 catalogue '21

Full title: Force Times Distances: On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies

Publisher: Archive Books

Vrije Kunst in Nijmegen (2018)

Text: Nico Huijbregts

Lay out: Pascale Companjen

Photography: Inge Hondebrink

Publisher: Stiching de Oprit

ISBN: 9789090309699

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

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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

UMC (2011)

Text: Daan van Speybrouk

From a series of editions

 

Between Time Between Space (2009)

Text: Andree van de Kerckhove

Design: Jan-Wieger van den Berg

 

Gap 3 (2008)

Text: o.a. Gudrun Bott and Marcus Lütkemeyer

Design: Jeremy Jansen, Werkplaats Typografie

Publisher: Schloss Ringenberg

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