Graduation work
During my graduation year worked towards 2 proposal installations, and the final installation that was on display at the finals show Hot Damn, Thank you Ma’am Artez Arnhem ( 30/6/’21 – 4/7/’21).
“In the constant state of acceleration, our current society is built around just one thing: increasing growth. In this world filled with performative pressure, the artist questions: Where do we still find comfort? And is fleeing to a retreat any form of a solution? Within this landscape, such worlds are presented: a liminal space hidden within our reality. This is a space between the actual destination of safety, and the chaotic accelerating world.
Here, we find ourselves questioning, what we define as a space. Could we find such a space if refuge in a mental space, something that lives in our head? Or could we find a new form of peace in the controlled environment of traffic objects, like orange cones? Untouched goods that according to Poeka, have no purpose of improvement. The quest leads on, and in the meantime we are still stuck in the middle. Wondering whether we should fall back into the lacking system of being constantly active, or if we should shut down for a short moment of sweet tenderness. Until then, she writes: ‘Dear Destination… we will meet in my dreams.'”
With these works I graduated my bachelor degree in Fine Arts (Artez, Arnhem) in 2021.