Slow Craft as Spiritual Practice?
I am currently developing a large-scale embroidery piece inspired by the cutwork patterns of my grandmother’s doilies. Through the slow, repetitive gestures of stitching around cut openings, the work engages embroidery as a form of embodied thinking. The process foregrounds craft not merely as technique or heritage, but as a temporal practice through which questions […]
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 a white, middleclass, middle-aged woman, based and raised in Northern Europe. Shouldn’t I be silent and give space to other postitions and perspectives, who are more relevant in this? One […]
Sonsbeek 2020_24
My reaction to the announcement of the collective resignation of the curatorial team of sonsbeek20→24 in October/November 2022