I am often wondering where the idea of "good" came from and how it is possible to perceive certain things as "bad". Who invented the narration of the protagonist and antagonist, the hero and the villain? It seems to me, that thinking of right and wrong is the same as thinking of what to say next in a conversation - it makes you incapable of listening. So, I spend most of my days working on spaces, films, and objects that contain neither right, nor wrong, but [ ] They live on fragility; in the tension of being in-between. Some days they act alive, other days they fall apart. On the nicest days they breathe with me.
My name is the sound I use to introduce myself
Film
2023
Awards
Winner of Audience Award at Cinedans Film Festival '25
Winner of Spezial Price Z Generation at ZED Festival and La Danza in 1 Minuto '25
Special Mentioning by Jury at Cinedans Film Festival '25
Screened at:
Mov'in Cannes , Cannes '25
Choreoscope, Barcelona '25
Jumping Frames Film Festival, Hong Kong '25
Moovy Film Festival, Köln '25
Living Dance Festival, Langfang, China ‘25
ZED Festival and La Danza in 1 Minuto, Bologna '25
Cinedans Fest Film Festival, Amsterdam '25
Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam '23, '24, '25,
Dance (Lens) Festival 2025, The Camera Behaves, Melbourne '25
Selected program, OT301, Amsterdam ‘25
Circulo Roto, Selected program, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam '24
A Curtain is a Stage, Selected program, Nieuwland, Amsterdam '24
Ruimte in Beweging, Schiedam '23
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam '23
The short film, My name is the sound I use to introduce myself, is a reflection on the absurdity of the mundane rules we not only choose to follow but as well force to force to follow. As waiting for the light to turn from red to green on the cross-path. By waiting, you as well ask others to wait. The concept of the film was born while babysitting a child of a friend. In the role as the adult I found myself enforcing rules I had been fighting against even before I had developed a verbal language. My position as the adult shocked me. Clearly knowing my ideals I regardless acted against them. I thought to myself that growing up was like a dance you couldn't escape, and I am still searching for the footsteps that will free me from following the moves I am expected to do.
Everyone Sleeps With Their Head To The Wall
2021 Film
3'57''
Cinema screening
at Eye Film Museum as part of Eye on Art
Made in collaboration with Ada Jochimsen
Actress’: Sabine Heydt
Costumes: Erin McClain
Filmed at Tungsten Studio
In search of a dialogue a woman slowly dissolves into fainted memories and loneliness, until she has no human shape, but her consciousness lost in an ocean of her past and present.
Cinema screening
Filmhuis Cavia
Online public COVID lockdown Premiere
Made in collaboration with Colin Oord and Helena Murillo
Actor: Jonne Droost
As humans we perceive and by perception we judge. In-between perception and judgment the presumptions live. The presumptions are happy to help us perceive. Sometimes so happy that I wonder whether we lost our sense of perception. Whether we just assume, because assuming is the easiest.
The Sun was a satellite
2023
Light sculpture
NASA Mylar foil, wood, glass, aluminum, power LED
230 x 230 x 230 cm
I find “truth” a fascinating flexible matter. We might talk about an objective truth while knowing that one day people woke up finding themselves orbiting The Sun, just after The Sun had been orbiting them since the beginning of times, and after all, nothing had changed.
The only space I know of, that is free from social convictions, is under the surface of the sea, when I am diving as close to the sand as possible. There my body is weightless. Gently moved back and forth by the waves. My ears are filled with the clicking sound of stones and sand. There I can be free from the rules of society, as long as I can hold my breath.
The Sea still is
2023
Kinetic sculptural installation
Scaffolding netting, wood, aluminum, power LED, motor
500 x 550 x 300 cm
in the next couple of days * more to come in the next couple of days * more to come in the next couple
