Multimedia project
2005-2008
HOME OR NOT
Screen-print
Variable dimensions
HOME OR NOT
Photo print with Text
Variable dimensions
PROOF OF LIFE, 2002
Photo print
Variable dimensions
HOME OR NOT
ABOUT THE WORK: Home is the house and the soil; it is the body enclosing and protecting the souls. Home i the mother’s womb and the whole planet where our lives unfold. Home is the place we leave behind when we go elsewhere, however, home can also refer to a place that only lives in our memories and dreams.
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The artist's personal experience with starting a new life in the Netherlands inspired the HOME OR NOT project. The work examines the process of proving a love relationship to immigration services in order to obtain a visa to live in the country by presenting photo documentation of everyday life plus letter confirmations from friends and relatives. Additionally, the work discusses the struggle to find a house in the overpopulated Amsterdam with its chronically high house deficit, while questioning whether love is enough as a guarantee of shelter and belonging.
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HOME OR NOT explores the meanings and representations of home and the concept of shelter related to love and relationship. It reflects on how we identify and become attached to places, buildings and objects and how this attachment contributes to our personal well-being and supports our identities.
Ultimately, the project interconnects an array of disciplines such as installation, photography, design, architecture, painting and video in order to investigate the intersection of migration, love and home in the women’s lives, while highlighting the dilemma: Where is home? What does home symbolize? Am I at home?
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ABOUT THE WORK: Home is the house and the soil; it is the body enclosing and protecting the souls. Home i the mother’s womb and the whole planet where our lives unfold. Home is the place we leave behind when we go elsewhere, however, home can also refer to a place that only lives in our memories and dreams.
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The artist's personal experience with starting a new life in the Netherlands inspired the HOME OR NOT project. The work examines the process of proving a love relationship to immigration services in order to obtain a visa to live in the country by presenting photo documentation of everyday life plus letter confirmations from friends and relatives. Additionally, the work discusses the struggle to find a house in the overpopulated Amsterdam with its chronically high house deficit, while questioning whether love is enough as a guarantee of shelter and belonging.
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HOME OR NOT explores the meanings and representations of home and the concept of shelter related to love and relationship. It reflects on how we identify and become attached to places, buildings and objects and how this attachment contributes to our personal well-being and supports our identities.
Ultimately, the project interconnects an array of disciplines such as installation, photography, design, architecture, painting and video in order to investigate the intersection of migration, love and home in the women’s lives, while highlighting the dilemma: Where is home? What does home symbolize? Am I at home?
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HOMELESSNESS
Photo print with Text
Variable dimensions
2002
LOVE/LEGAL, 2002
Xerox
Variable dimensions
MAP,
Mixed media
Variable dimensions
Mixed media
Variable dimensions
HOME,
Chocollate
Variable dimensions
PROOF OF LIFE, 2002
Photographs
Variable dimensions
HOME,
Chocollate + table cloth
Variable dimensions
STORM
Photo print with Text
Variable dimensions
2002
