3-channel video + textile instillation
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show
Amsterdam, NL

Costume, writing, edit, production & installation design by myself
Camera & acting by Lou Vandam & Ursula Marcussen

Sound by Romy Winkel & Georgia Weaver
Filmed at Ponderosa Art Residency in Lunow-Stolzenhagen, DE

From my thesis research and inspired by Plato’s Myth of Er, the work considers the paradoxical position of the textile crafter as a traditionally working-class woman and yet a maker of decadence. Informed by magic, mythology, fairy-tales, theory, and folk histories, I explore her by uncovering her long-perceived role as magician and alchemist, someone who can make something of value from nothing but waste.

This project was supported by Berlage Fonds & Stichting Sophia Fonds.

2021