‘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 the cloth evenmore.
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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 Grond, directed by Alexander Devriendt), in which the scene where I had to throw a handful of confetti in the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Art installation, video art
‘And I?’, 2019