‘Naakt door het domein lopen en Dextro eten’
As artist-in-residence at Destelheide, a centre for youth, art and creation run by the Flemish Community, I explored, manipulated and exhibited the different relationships that visitors have with the domain. How do visitors appropriate this place? Is the seclusion of this place a prerequisite for feeling at home? What unspoken conditions do visitors impose on others during their stay? I focused on the visitors' experience and only showed work that was created there, within the boundaries of Destelheide.
As artist-in-residence at Destelheide, a centre for youth, art and creation run by the Flemish Community, I explored, manipulated and exhibited the different relationships that visitors have with the domain. How do visitors appropriate this place? Is the seclusion of this place a prerequisite for feeling at home? What unspoken conditions do visitors impose on others during their stay? I focused on the visitors' experience and only showed work that was created there, within the boundaries of Destelheide.
bevraging bij bezoekers, maart 2019 - maart 2020
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‘Naakt door het domein lopen en Dextro eten’, juli 2019
What are the boundaries of Destelheide? The domain seems to blend so seamlessly into the surrounding landscape that few visitors can pinpoint the exact physical separation from the outside world, as I noticed from the survey. However, once through the Destelheide gate, residents themselves appear to install invisible boundaries. After all, the domain becomes theirs for a certain period of time, and anyone who enters Destelheide must then comply with their specific, unspoken conditions.
‘Naakt door het domein lopen en Dextro eten’ is a visual account of a journey along the physical border of Destelheide. The explicit depiction of this separation on the windows of the restaurant aims to confront visitors with the various boundaries – visible and invisible – that determine human behaviour, in Destelheide and elsewhere.
‘Naakt door het domein lopen en Dextro eten’ is a visual account of a journey along the physical border of Destelheide. The explicit depiction of this separation on the windows of the restaurant aims to confront visitors with the various boundaries – visible and invisible – that determine human behaviour, in Destelheide and elsewhere.
Ja, kom maar, we moeten gewoon nog bidden’, maart 2019
‘Ja, kom maar, we moeten gewoon nog bidden’, created after attending the evening rituals of some of the residents of Destelheide.
‘Maar de nacht is hier al zo kort’, februari - juli 2019
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'Uw licht in het duister, verbouw je slaapkamer tot een Camera Obscura', juli 2019
With a simple kit, residents at Destelheide can now transform their bedrooms into a Camera Obscura.