The Plunge (2022)
Engagement, Post-post collective, in Het Archief - https://www.hetarchief.online
Mash Mesh, Post-post collective, in Boijmans Hillevliet - https://www.boijmans.nl/projecten/boijmans-hillevliet
Pantomime, Post-post collective, in https://www.instagram.com/ijzerblok.rotterdam/
Actual . Art . Space, Post-post collective, in https://www.paviljoenaanhetwater.com
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The Plunge, installation; ceramic sculptures, an abundance of sheets.
The Plunge, installation; ceramic sculptures, an abundance of sheets.The Plunge is an installation of ceramic pieces in an abundance of hand-washed white sheets, that were retrieved from a laundromat qualified ‘depreciated’. The work has been exhibited in different compositions and progressed into a final state over six months, in which the intention and action of engagement played a central role. The installation invites the visitor to immerse into ‘The Realm Of Emotions’, which is characterized by its dual organization. The heaving, swirling sheets clash with the stiff, and static hand-build embodiments of my sensual experiences, to imagine the unification of body and mind in the emotional space in between them.
The body parts, my body parts, our body parts - drawn and sculpted according to images that appeared in somatic-oriented contemplative practices are given a pedestal to be observed within a narrative that has no chronological logic, nor a main subject or object. Each relates, as a radiant object through their relationality. The urge to plunge grew on me, in a state of dissociation. Through hosting conversation spaces in walks through the park, in the ‘Sheet Hut’, and through facilitating collective sheet shaping, and sheet wrapping rituals, I invoked and maintained dialogue about the experience, consequences, and meaning of dissociation. Sheets as a medium became more integrated in the process, as blank surfaces to physically engage through.
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The image of an abundance of sheets keeps appearing in meditation and daydreaming. White, broken around the body - safe. The white unemployed flatness; is functional in showing that it is harmless. It covers and reveals not only skin and hair but a face between day and night; there are two beings. One in the here and now, one that is filled with expectations about tomorrow and judgments of today. White that is not truly white, broken - not through intentional change, but usage - being worn to rest, to make peace with tiredness, restlessness, and a void that reminds one of death. To surround with and comfort in a new ending, every day. Many days does the white sheet have a shape?
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