A Reverie in Herfstwinter’s Nights is a spatial and sound installation developed from night walks and field recordings in the urban nature around Amsterdam. During the darker months I returned to the same paths, trees and water edges, collecting sounds and sketches on how time feels when the city is embraced by the dark and the nonhuman world becomes more present.
For me this work was a way to ask: how can art creates an imaginary reverie, a space where internal time, seasonal time and more-than-human rhythms overlap, as an undercurrent to the conventional temporality that dominates our daily routines?
Materials: wood, stone paper, acrylic, gouache, sound
Foxtail by the pole consists of two parts:
One part is presented as an installation in which I explore the transient and fleeting inner flow of memory. A performer (as the past self in the act of remembrance) meditatively makes sounds and movements inside the installation.
The other part is a performance in which the I walk with Āgata, the memory backpack, and if the occasion arises, I invite passersby to sit together to engage in conversation and shape a memory. Up till now, I have carried 80 pieces of memories.
Through this work I immerge in internal time, looking into how a single moment in memory can open up into many layers of before and after, and how two timelines (mine and the other person’s) briefly intersect and leave traces in each other.
Materials: wooden structure, backpack (wood, fabrics, metal and 3d printed accessories), watercolour and gouache, airbrush, rice paper, plastiline
A fictional newspaper, based on real historical events and the artist’s fantasies. The work juxtaposes human history with the history of goats, inviting the audience to join a reading group that unfolds the intricacies embedded in human's treatment of other species.
Materials: silkscreen on recycled paper
In this work, the audiences are invited to walk through a trajectory in which they will encounter several performers at various points inside the building and outside in the garden. Throughout the walk, string(s) is present as written note, audio voice and sound of live violin to accompany the viewer on this winding journey of personal memories, daily surroundings and philosophical rumination.
Materials: human body, wooden support, sound, photograph, plastiline, live violin string play, self-bound book based on Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time, VII: Time Regained’
This work is presented as the opening performance of Rietveld Uncut 2023: Refuge - fleeing, flowing, leaking at the Stedelijk Museum. The performer is carried into the building and slowly creeps out after paper stripes with dates, places and number have been placed on their back. It is a metaphorical disburdening trail and a reflection on an individual’s position in relation to the collective history.
Materials: text on paper stripes
In this work, the visitor is provided with four different optical tools to look at barely recognizable poems throughout the space.
Materials: optical tools, text on paper
This installation seeks to capture the moments of a poet who cannot fall asleep but keep writing poems. The sound of the typewritter can be heard in the space.
Materials: handwritten and typed text on paper, sound, typewritter, wooden table and chair, metal frame, watercolour and gouache on paper, copper plate (with etching, engraving and soldered bronze)
Valley (2021), wall paint on canvas, 200.5 x 141 cm
