As a multidisciplinary artist I emphasize performativity in my works. The mediums I choose these days find themselves primarily in theater, performance and visual arts.
A vast amount of my work is currently being produced with theater group Terminal 8; founded together with Micah Westera and Cecilia Berghäll we strive to bring bold, contemporary theater on stages throughout the Netherlands and Europe.
My works often start with the fascination of a very simple element that I encounter – a feeling, an environmental detail or a simple shape and color. I abstract that element to build the basis of an artistic concept. This concept I quickly put into space in playful manners to research how this element is relating to the space-that-is-there. While the results are often very entangled in a specific location, my goal is always to create a work that could be put anywhere – and as such, completely change the story it brings.
As an artist specializing in scenography; time, space, and the spectator play crucial roles in my work. Whether I work with script, raw physical material or pure imagination, the experience of an overall aesthetic atmosphere should be what drives an emotional experience of the artwork.
Through my professional career I hope to bring more spatial and experiential poetry into the visual and performative fields of art. I strive to collaborate on this as much as possible, with people of course, but also materials and spaces. During the making I put a lot of emphasis on the dramaturgy of my designs – how can I make it relate on a deeper level to the others’ – actors, architecture, stories – that are sharing the space?