DIGITALITY
A series of large works on paper, built op like a desktop with many tabs open. Each tab is filled with a different perspective on the harshness of polarizing opinions, as a result of algorithms in social media. The works are a plea for nuance, joining various perspectives, and may be read as visual essays. For example, ‘Flip that coin’ (above) revolves around thoughts on facts becoming fiction, and invites to be patient, to step into the other’s shoes, borrow the other’s perspective. ‘L’homme fluide’ questions what part of you is solid and guarded by walls, and what part can become fluid to move towards the other, past anger and fear. ‘Language Lost’, a wall collage, may be read from left to right: from an uncertain world and a loss of ability to speak openly with the other, moving into a new conectedness.
‘L’homme Fluide’ pencil, acrylic on paper 300 x 475 cm 2022, commissioned by the Dutch embassy in Paris
‘Language Lost’ wall collage 260 x 750 cm 2024
‘Hyperspace’ acrylic, felt pen, oil pastel, pencil on paper, 240 x 280 cm, 2022
ASSEMBLED LANDSCAPES
This series is based on landscapes in online games, and the way you move through them. Like digital landscapes, they consist of loose elements that may appear three-dimensional, and are at the same time flat. Most drawings offer access to different worlds to escape to: colourful and radiant, vibrant, calm like a breeze, or rather desolate and barren.
‘Optional Worlds’
acrylic, pencil felt pen, oil pastel on paper
173.5 x 183 cm
2024‘Transfigurative Wind’ acrylic, pencil, oil pastel on paper 240 x 423 cm 2024A SENSE OF SELF IN AN AGE OF DIGITALITY
The human figures in these drawings wander lonely through labyrinthic, anonymous spaces. Human figures are reduced to flat representations of selves: masks or heads squeezed into a compacted abstract stream. Reflections and shadow figures, constantly repeated, as in a hall of mirrors, make it difficult to distinguish which self is the true one.
‘Conversation Room’
pencil and crayon on paper
168 x 240 cm
2021 
‘Faces’ acrylic, pencil, artist pen on paper 2020
‘Compression’ pencil and acrylic on paper 146 x 232 cm 2021
