BODIES of WORK / mini solo part of Selfie van de Ziel

BODIES of WORK is my first (mini) solo exhibition, bringing together a number of new and old canvases, sculptures and installations. The title has a dual meaning. On the one hand, it is a generic word for “oeuvre” and I am showing part of my expanding visual and narrative work. On the other hand, it is a plea for the physical (the body) as a symbol of human vulnerability, and an attempt to manifest (female) power in a world that is still burdened by patriarchal systems and inequality. Work also refers to the work it takes to survive, the burden we carry with us, the burden I carried on my shoulders, the heaviness that has settled in my hips. The expanding oeuvre, the expanding hips. Working is good, but what are we working towards? Rest is necessary in this overheated world. Rest is revolution. Let us lie down.

This presentation is part of a larger exhibition under the title Selfie van de Ziel. And covers, besides my work (mini) solos of the following artists: Fabian Gruau, Ossa Kierkegaard, DH Mack, Kjell van Norel, Francesco Zorzi. Each of us may cover 70 m2 projectspace and each of us show unpolished personal stories each in a different way. Feel welcome. 

Oh. A quote? 

In my work, I often explore the physical as a longing for a more human world. As psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk states: ‘Western culture is extremely disembodied. We constantly think with our heads and rarely feel with our bodies.’ The series BODIES of WORK began during the pandemic and attempts to break through the disembodied era. 

[Image snippet from wallpiece: reference woman]

TO THE MOON expo

What better reaction to the worlds despair, than to gather some feminist artists, and howl together at the moon? Come check it out in june and july. My contribution to To The Moon will be a huge sculpture the large sleeping lady: Spoon and some surprise works. There will be art, performances and loads of lunar energy.

We, as women and artists, refuse to succumb the forces of violence and patriarchy, and have decided to come together to put forth an alternative perspective. Yes, we are afraid, but we are also angry.  And in this anger there is love and a desire to see the world on a better path than the one that aims at control, violence, war and suppression. We can provide space to connect, a collaberitive spirit, a place for ideas, for agency and for community. 

To this end we embody the moon, the archetypal feminine, the force that turns the tides with power and intensity day and night, again and again going from darkness to a new dawn. 

 

Text by Jonas van Kappel accompanying expo Transformation in Time at Kunstruim

 

Expo Transfromation in Time is closed, work sold

After 3 weeks of being exposed in a lovely group expo Transformation in Time - i had to bring the Body Language Mobile back tot the studio. 10 works are sold. Next stop: To The Moon Expo 28 june 2025.

Some pics of the opening:

Ooh. Forgot to announce this expo on my website. So sorry. Stupido. Luckily you can still visit until the 8th of July. xxx Lies

Sneak peak? See the next post with opening pics. My contribution is an installation (2 meters high,. 1.50) with embroidered drawings in cheese cloth. 

Tactiel sculptuur SPOON op de Touch expo #Treehouse Pavillion

 

 Spoon is a true body size tactile sculpture that lies on the floor as if it is calmly asleep in the spoon position. A position most of us actually do every night, curled up and hidden in our beds, hiding away from the world’s despair. I think many people will recognize this escapist tendency: when the world feels hostile and dangerous – nothing gives more comfort than cuddling up in bed with a loved one. This sculpture invites visitors to cuddle up on the floor, and spoon the sculpture. Just looking at it, it expresses a kind of loneliness. This tactile sculpture is part of a – by now- larger collection of huge cushion like tactile sculptures that Aris made these last couple of years. The material, cotton filled with cheryy pits, follows the temperature of the person spooning the sculpture. The sculpture can also be heated on n electrical heater, the filling will The series started at the beginning of Corona, as a reaction to the more distant fysical behaviour and her conviction that in this screen age, in which humans are more and more related to their digital screens and less in contact with their senses and less convinced of the beneficiance of fyscial nearness and true bodily contact. 

OOO [Out of office] 1e collage op schilderslinnen op Nieuw New Babylon expo

 In het voorjaar van 2024 nam ik deel aan een expositie met de titel Nieuw New Babylon in NDSM Fuse, gecureerd door Ellen Klijzing. Ik hing er een schilderslinnen op, een collage van geprinte iphonefoto's die ik naam gedurende mijn kantoorbaan aan de Zuidas. Een ervaring die voor mij als autonoom een behoorlijk vervreemdende ervaring was. Door de Zuidas en het kantoor als setting te zien, te fotograferen en die foto's te printen op de kantoorprinter, kreeg ik grip op de setting, om er ook achter te komen dat een kantoor niet mijn omgeving is. OOO, betekent in kantoortaal: out of office. Die melding stelde ik in uiteindelijk;)