As a visual artist and social scientist, I explore public secrets, the shared truths everyone knows yet does not openly acknowledge. Often my practice begins with a hunch or an object that asks for deeper research and creative interventions.

I draw on expertise in anthropology, political science and public health.

 

I see my work as cultural acupuncture: small, precise, sometimes absurd interventions that ease rigid ways of thinking, release hidden tensions, and open space for fresh perspectives.

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I question the dividing line between art and science that was drawn in the nineteenth century. Art requires research, skill and craft to make ideas tangible. Science requires creativity to interpret reality and uncover patterns through words, numbers and formulas. Materials and emotions have their own logic.

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Political and social power figure in my work not just as something exercised by large institutions, but something embedded in objects, rituals, words and intimate experiences. Through installations, performances, sculpture, analog photography and video, I combine memorial and celebratory elements, often leaving room for participation and co-creation. My work is light rather than lugubrious: I open with enthusiasm, irony and colour, and balance gravity and optimism.

 

My projects range from autonomous works to commissions and collective interventions.

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Education:

• Visual Arts Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam

• PhD Medical Anthropology University of Amsterdam

• Masters in International Public Health (MPH) Netherlands School of Public & Occupational Health

• Masters (MA) in political science University of Amsterdam

• Visual Anthropology, Photography Tisch School of the Arts, New York

• Documentary film Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, New School, New York

• Visual Arts Kunstacademie, Haarlem