2020
Cas / Home – 2020
The realisation of a home is mere virtual and now deflects critical questions of belongings and migration. There is more to see behind the walls of the house when it is not a home.
Amsterdam
Cas (Home)
230cm x 250cm, mixed media.
Galerie 23, Amsterdam, 2020.
2019
Trans-colonialismo – at the 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba – 2019
Group exhibition “Anthropical” at the “El Reino de este mundo”, invited by artist Alydia Wever representing Aruba, curated by José Manuel Noceda.
For this new work in the “Anthropical” exhibition and art performance the sign of times is again defining as the art pieces tend to get well absorbed by the audience by it’s visuality, but also the direct link to the local sentiment of spiritual belonging and how to store this vulnerable pertinence in a fast changing global society, and even faster accelerating Cuban (Caribbean) reality.
Overview – mixed media, variable dimensions. Havana public library gallery “El Reino de este mundo”, Havana, Cuba 2019.
Mestizo War serie #1
Hammock (textile) made by Guajiro indiginious from Venezuela, inflatable sex dolls. 3m x 3m.
Havana public library gallery “El Reino de este mundo”, Havana, Cuba, 2019.
Mestizo War serie #2
Sex dolls sowed together stuffed with cloth, hammock, sequinces, hanged from ceiling with hammock rope. 1m x 3m. 2019
Mestizo War serie #1
Performance by Orwin Gomes, chorography by Alydia Wever. 2019
Mestizo War serie #3
Hammock (textile) made in Mexico, foldable beach chair. 2m x 2m.
Havana public library gallery “El Reino de este mundo”, Havana, Cuba, 2019.
Mestizo War serie #3
Costume: Sex dolls sowed together confectioned by Dorien van der Wijst.
Performance by Orwin Gomes, chorography by Alydia Wever.
Trans-Colonialismo (stills) – in collaboration with Alydia Wever
Video (portrait view: 1920 x 1080, HD). Havana public library gallery “El Reino de este mundo”, Havana, Cuba, 2019.
The intoxicating repetitive movement of the typical Aruban traditional skirts shot from an angle which exposes the sensuality of the artist, Alydia Wever, portrays a weak link in the Caribbean and Latin American political systems due to high testosterones and machismo. It loops back into the question of how it came to be and what relationship it has with Christianity and how to balance between the European thinking of “North” vs “South”.
Trans-Colonialismo
In collaboration with Alydia Wever
Video (portrait view: 1920 x 1080, HD). Havana public library gallery “El Reino de este mundo”, Havana, Cuba, 2019.
2017
El Peñero. Unos puntos de salida (The fishermans boat. A few points of departure) – 2017
The mere necessity to be “one and the same people” makes the conquest of borders a paradox when pre-amplified by the notion that we, the people, are the beginning and the end of what is contemporary. We are the product of this philosophical, virtual, Neo-Enlightment self-experiment where survival is equivalent with comfort and destruction. Is this “knowing of one’s existence” from the viewpoint of makers of the law, survivable? To which kingdom do you belong to?
Curated by Jimmy Janez, MACZUL, Venezuela
Trans-de-generación
6 m x 2.6 m, 2.6 m x 1.30 m, hammocks, stone, rope, expoxy
Mare Nostrum, MACZUL, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2017.
The two “hammock” boats (Chinchorros), which initially set sail to the Caribbean Sea, Aruba, Venezuela, were later placed on the beach shores as fishermen do when they have to prepare the boats for a long voyage. This preparation is where you see the bottom of the boat, the essential part of the transporter, its trace, its texture. It is the time that the sea gives to its inhabitant, “The Caribbean”, which defines us so much. It is central to all that we are, but it is as transparent as a informer in a stage play without protagonists.
The dual function of the boat (hammocks) is that it gives purpose to the journey to be always on the way and always in repair mode.
Trans-de-generación – details
6 m x 2.6 m, 2.6 m x 1.30 m, hammocks, stone, rope, expoxy
Mare Nostrum, MACZUL, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2017.
2016
Onvoorziene Kosten (Unforeseen expenses) – 2016
When illegal immigration, Sexuality, Child abuse and Happiness are the factors that describe our present situation, we must take into consideration that child education is the only solution out of this chaos. The boundaries of regional “machismo” and the local emancipated women, makes it almost a surrealistic environment for a child to be brought up in. “One ego-island”.
Curated by Elvis Lopez, Aruba
“Onvoorziene Kosten” (Unforeseen expenses)
60cm x 60cm x 70cm, mixed media.
Artfair Aruba, Ateliers ’89 Sanicolas, Aruba, 2016.