Inside Dance
2025
steel, stainless steel
300x110x350cm
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As a complex organism, we are present in the world. Part of it, yet also separated by our thoughts. We analyze what our body tells us. We mirror what we recognize. We measure ourselves against our environment. Yet, we are not separate. Substances, cells, and bacteria are constantly exchanged with our environment. We change and react to everything our body encounters.
The work depicts the body as an organism, as part of nature, separated from the outside world by our skin and our rational thoughts. It breaches two worlds, just as it breaches the surface of water. The white curving lines refer to water dripping off, but at the same time building up the human figure. It questions who we are within the soft skin and beyond our rational thoughts.
Dancer of Messen
2023
160x160x150 cm
steel and polycarbonate
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When I first came to the artist in Residence KH-Messen I was fascinated by how much the perspective on the surrounding nature changes with changes in the weather. Suddenly the mountains can have disappeared, hidden by the clouds. Or the water can make the sky seems endless, being turned into a mirror on a windless day. When I was asked 5 year later to return and make an artwork for their art-garden I immediately know I wanted to incorporate this transformative quality into the work. Dancer of Messen changes with the weather and interact with it’s surroundings.
Naked Skin
2022
steel, motor
55x55x180cm
Part of the permanent collection of Beeldengalerie het Depot, Wageningen (sold)
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The female body, formed from roughly cut pieces of steel metal, slowly move out in pieces and then rejoin to form the characteristic body. The sensitivity of the skin, being naked, exposing, and the strength of the body against references from the sheet metal to a knights armor, the armed forces and the physical battle, come beautifully together. At a time when female nudes can no longer be seen separate from gender discussions, beauty ideals and sexism, I want to portray the naked human body as something universal. In this work I want to express who or what we, as human beings (should / can) be: Free, universal, powerful, vulnerable and sincere.
Bubble
2022
200x150x300 cm
Wood, soap, string, motor, fan.
Bubble was created for the art route Kunst van hier tot ginder.
Photo’s where made by Victoria Cernica.
Wingbeat
2020
powder coated steel, brass, painted tinplate, electronics
3x - 50x50x150 cm
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The installation Wingbeat consists of three towers,
each with a flexible rod and two wings attached to it. The wings open and close as they dance around the pylons. The work harks back to a time when fields were teeming with insects. Swarms hung above the grass and flew around your ears as you stepped outside. That time seem to be over now over. Now comes the hum of electricity pylons and airplanes. These mechanical wingbeats are a reminder of what was once commonplace.
Transition
2022
steal,fiber glass, POE
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This metal sculpture appears to be overgrown with mushrooms. Plastic umbrellas also sprout from the metal stump. The lightweight, mushroom-shaped umbrellas dance in the wind. They represent the mysterious appearance and disappearance of the many species of mushrooms in nature. With this work, the artist wants us to look at our surroundings with childlike wonder.
(text by Eva Kleeman)
Lux aucupes (Light Catchers)
2020
aluminium, steel, stainlessteel, Lycra, nylon, motor, electronics
140x140x220, 140x140x240 cm
(one sold)
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Lux aucupes is inspired by the way plants grow toward the light. With a rotating motion, they try to find the best spots to catch the light on their leaves. In the work it also becomes visible in the night, when lights shine upward from the ground. As the work rotates over the light source, it projects shadows of the grass onto the moving disks, catching a glimps of the world around. The combination of the Latin and Dutch name again refers to the plant-like character.
Pulse
2020
40x40x183 cm
powder coated steel, reflective foil, motor.
€ 3,200,-
Sprout
2019
steel and stainless steel
120x100x160 cm
€ 3.200,-
Water Washers
2019
1:38 min.
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Video of machine washing cloth in water.
In the Netherlands the sight of people washing clothes in rivers lives only memory’s. In this model for a room filling Installation, the movement is mechanized as a tribute to the obsolescence of hard labor, and the loss of the fiscal connections whit nature.
Pollination Field
2018
Installation
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The collective movement of nature and the growth and blossoming of plants have been a significant inspiration for this work. It's fascinating to see how flowers emerge and open simultaneously everywhere in spring. Even when birds are startled and decide to take flight simultaneously, a collective unity suddenly arises. The sensation that elements are invisibly connected evokes an overwhelming feeling in me. There's something magical about seeing how a group can suddenly emerge from individuals. With this work, I want to explore this experience.
The installation came about during my two-month stay in Norway. The grandeur of the surrounding mountains and the delicate beauty of leaves dancing in the wind left a deep impression on me.
Forgotten Pine
2018
250x200x450 cm
Steel
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Nature can not be made by human hands... or can it?
The series called "Pine" is a followup on the "Bark" series where I research the transformation of nature when it is remade by human hands. Perception, skill and the use of material, re shaped the object to a piece that represents the natural form.
In this series I took it one step further. I approached the tree as a living organism in which many process take place. By drawing a tree with this in mind, the tree started to reform. After I used this drawing as a blueprint for two new sculptures, all that remains from the tree is a distorted reflection where a human functioned as mirror.
The Last Dance
2017
2x (110x80x180 cm)
steel, paper mache, motor and programed elektronics
This installation consists of to insect-like objects, which move their legs in an unpredictable rhythm up and down. It reminds of a form of communication, where both love or hate can be of motivation.
"Object" series
2014-2018
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In this series of moving works I search to create organic movement with mechanical constructions. From a simple rotating motion, the movement is transformed to something we can no longer follow. It escapes the capabilities of our rational mind. To me the structural approach we use to make sense of the world we live in, is fascinatie. I want to see what happens when we lose this structure. Where does the experience of a mechanism stop and the feeling of original organic motion begin? Or in a bigger context, where does the sense of culture stop and nature begin?
Transposition of colour
2015
340x470x160 cm
rope, wood, painted steel, pulleys, textile and electric motor
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I got fascinated by the fact that people often wear gray-ish pants, while they lifen up their outfit with more colour from their waist up. By doing so they create a thin line of colour on approximately one meter above the surface of the earth.
In this installation I sewn many different colored t-shirts onto a band, and let them slowly rotated through the exhibition space, to mimic the colorful streams of people swerming the earth.The Installation was shown as part of a group exhibition at project space Circa...dit, Arnhem in 2015
Living Bark
2013
100x160x15cm
tree bark, steel and electronics
In our lives we are constantly moving, interacting, and adjusting. We live in a flow of 24/7 while we try to understand the world around us. But many movements and processes does not take place in this rhythm. Like the growing of a tree takes years before changes on the trunk are visible. It moves so slow that we can not experience it as a movement. This work is about imaging we could see the bark of a tree, slowly drifting and bursting while it grows on the surface of a tree trunk.