Object Mori
2023
Site-specific art Installation, made inside a room in the former industrial complex of the Dutch train company NS. Size of the room is: 6 x 8 meters. Size of the house is 3 x 4 meters. No specific duration.
‘Object Mori’ is an art installation made for the graduation show of HKU (for the MA in Scenography).
My mother passed away in november of last year. Her death became intertwined with my artistic discourse during the master’s program. I focused on death culture and funerary customs before november. After her passing, I directed my research to the notion of a post-self and the grief I felt (feel).
I came to the consensus that ‘grief’ is not solely about missing the person gone, it is about an ongoing and vast ‘loneliness’ that unhinges you completely. How to deal with the inevitability of death, when you do not believe in a place thereafter? Why do we avoid the subject of death so often, while it is such a prominent part of our life experience? Morituri te salutant, those who die salute you.