When Virtueel Platfom asked me to take pictures of their printed publications, I decided to fold and stack them into shelters. It seemed like a funny intervention to create a physical home for a virtual platform. Commissioned by Virtueel Platform
These series of photos show an encounter with Germans through their objects. I appropriate typical German objects like beer, sausages and homemade chopped meet hedgehogs and use the cliché stigma that Germans have an obsession to order and archive to demonstrate their cultural peculiarities. The hole punch is not for… Read More
These pictures are made in Kuldiga, a small town in western Latvia. Kuldiga is an old town, which has a typical provincial feel due to its 19th century architecture and the fact that there are no modern roads, nor railways. If you would vanish the people of the streetscape, the… Read More
Das Banale Ding is an artist collective founded in 2010 in Amsterdam. Sharp and with a sense of humor, they redefine reality and reclaim imagination with objects from our daily life. Everyday objects are placed in different contexts or photographed in specific manners to unleash them from their original meaning. By… Read More
The starting point of this video installation is the inventory list of an apartment where Annegien lived together with the artist Verónica Luyo Torres. After the lease expired, an agency hired by the owner forced them to return all the objects and furniture in the same place as it was… Read More
This project is a compilation of e-mails all related to the process of settling myself in Barcelona. The recipients are people I know (e.g. a friend or a professor) until strangers with whom I eventually become friends with. The way of writing reflects a slow process of making myself familiar… Read More
These series of photos I took in my room (16m2) in Barcelona, focused on the personal adjustments, solutions and distribution of things within this specific place. By subtle interventions I accentuated different situations and I added an extra dimension to daily reality. These various perspectives show the different ways I… Read More
In Barcelona I rented a furnished room in a flat that belonged to an elderly woman. In spite of the fact that she did not live there, I wasn’t allowed modifying anything regarding the interior of the house. One of the things that drew my attention, were the cupboards with… Read More
