Tag: grief
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Madelief van de Beek made the sand sculpture with sand of her mother’s grave. She created the work in the same week of her mother’s birthday. Her mother would have turned 59, but died on age 57.
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Art video made for the collection and ongoing research by the name: ‘Fuck. Volgens mij doe ik rouw verkeerd’. The Artist’s way to contextualise her feelings of bereavement at a young age
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When my mother passed away, I was in charge of sorting out her clothes. I decided to embroider ‘mama’ into the hems of all her dresses. I filmed myself doing this for over a month. This process resulted in a few hour-long videos. I find it important to be vulnerable as a creator, and to zoom in on…
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The work: ‘Yours, Death’ is a video installation at Haven Festival IJmuiden (2024), in which the audience is taken in theatrical flight to a place of active grief. Real lavender plants placed inside the installation; accompanied the text and gave a more sensorial experience to the viewers. The audience walked around the container with wireless headphones, so…
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This performance was a one-time-only performance. The registration is made to showcase and curate the work at a later day. I was confronted daily with the feeling of having to “say goodbye” repeatedly. I felt the need to give shape to these feelings. I got inspired by the play ‘Funeral’ (the play theatre collective: Brakke…
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‘Memento Object’ is a goodbye performance/ritual, performed on the last day of the exhibited, spacial work: ‘Object Mori’. During the performance, all the objects placed by the audience during the days prior, are being packed up again. Candles are being lit in remembrance of the objects gone. This changed lighting; highlighted the embroidered names in…
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‘In the shadow of loss… stands a room that houses grief. A room that provides a space in which to contemplate lives passed. A place to say goodbye at one’s own pace. Death can not alter any memories. It can only make them more meaningful’. The work ‘object mori’, centers on the banality of objects…
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The aim of the performance was to play with the perspectives of the spectators in the surrounding nature. The text highlights certain viewpoints during the performance: bird perspective, from afar, from the ground, looking up, out of sight etc. The group was split in two for the first part of the performance: group A and…
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Text of the ‘In Limbo’ exhibition:‘The Gans Studio will be demolished after our exhibition. But instead of going carte blanche, we took the route of highlighting the history and aesthetic of the building in its current stage. Limbo is a temporal state of being in between places. This place could be the one in between…