
[2016] The first time I realised that there is a word for the atmosphere I intend to provoke through my multimedia installations, was when I came across the word uncanny. The uncanny as in a certain moment when something familiar becomes strangely unfamiliar to us. A split second in which we perceive something we thought we knew, yet its old meaning has temporarily been lost. I think this is when time stands still, yet we feel so much alive. After that, something might have changed in us. Or not.
[2017] Developing these types of atmospheres, I moved to the literal sense of touch. Armed with sensing technology and silicone, I created haptic interfaces that mediated light and sound. Through the interplay between vision, touch and audition, I invited to sense and question the (non) living.
[2018] Through these works I acknowledged that the material used for touch and interactivity has something to say as well. That there might even be a chance that the material we interrelate with says it all. I went on a hunt for material. A material that, without any technological addition, provokes something. A material that ‘touches’ in another way, beyond the sense of touch we generally refer to.
[2019] The search led to an extraordinary encounter with a mighty (living) material on a random Monday morning. Its gorgeous brownish translucency, its undefinable smell and asymmetrical textures with an almost skin-like touch provoked strong ambivalent sensibilities. Somewhere along the line between repulsive attraction and attractive repulsion.
[2020] They say that, to follow the material is entering a true maze of meanings. Equipped with solid research methodologies that are significant for my artistic work, I guide the visitor through a magic microcosm of multi-sensory revelations and intellectual stubbornness of organic, living matter.
CREATIVE EDUCATION
2018 - 2020
Royal Academy of Art / Royal Conservatoire of The Hague
*Winner of the ArtScience Master Department Award
2013 - 2018
Interactive Design and Unstable Media (BA)*
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
*Nominee Long list Thesis Award
[CREATIVE] WORK
Research Coordinator (PARC)
'Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration'
University of the Arts The Hague /
Academy of Creative & Performing Arts Leiden
January 2021 - current
On Your Own 2020
Haagse Kunstkring
23 December 2020 - 3 January 2021
cancelled due to Covid-19
KABK Graduation Show (MA)
Royal Academy of Art / Royal Conservatory The Hague
Killing Horizons
Quartair Contemporary Art Initiative, The Hague
9 - 11 June 2019
Moment of 'Ma'
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
Technical University of Delft
11 October 2018
(previous) Campina Milk Factory, Eindhoven
14 September - 2 December 2018
(group exhibition with works of i.a. Hito Steyerl, Driessens & Verstappen, Funda Gül Özcan, Felix Burger etc.)
Gerrit Rietveld Graduation Show 2018
Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
4 - 8 July 2018
Hold me Now: Touch and Feel in the Unreal World
Rietveld Uncut, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
21- 24 March 2018
SiSiSpex
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1 - 2 December 2017
Bots, Bodies & Beasts
Rietveld Uncut, Brakke Grond Amsterdam
6 - 11 April 2016
PARTICIPATION
ReKnitting Collective Infrastructures
17 - 28 July 2023
Center Leo Apostel Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Systems at Play, A Self-Organising Symposium
on Self-Organisation
15-18 February 2023
Permaculture Design Course
July/August 2022
X-disciplinary Congress on Artistic Research & Related Matters - To Research or Not To Research in the Post-disciplinary Academy?
14-17 October 2021
12 - 21 July 2019, Barcelona
22 July - 15 august 2019, Granada