Nowadays, everything must have a deeper meaning ... A deeper meaning makes people discuss the meaning of life without ever agreeing. After all, everyone has their views, whether it is about faith, war, relationships or a cheese sandwich. In case of a cheese sandwich, I prefer mustard on it! Everyone takes a stand and apparently, everyone also has enough ammunition in the form of alleged knowledge and conviction to be able to take a stand.
Often I try to fill an apparent void in my work with subjective observations of significant figures in my immediate environment; my sister, father, friend, my ... In this way, I try to build a self-image of how I am or would like to be. Perhaps the emptiness in my work reflects the loneliness of growing up in my quest for maturity. In this light, I ask myself, what I as an artist have to say or want to say.
I have no intention of improving or saving the world. Mainly, I want to amaze myself with the power of the small, which everyone recognizes as simplicity. Sometimes this can be destructive and banal, and sometimes - by accident - it has a socio-critical charge. It ensures that my work is sometimes raw and biting, often humorous and sometimes just touching and beautiful. I try to let the various fragments of life fall apart and then glue them together again into something new in which I can recognize myself.
In my work, I also see myself not so much as an artist but more as someone who makes and/or improves broken things, a "fixer" perhaps. Maybe unconsciously, I am resisting the world's views of how I should be as a person and an artist, still trying to transform the "Me against the world" into "Me with the world". I want to show everyone what could have been. Therefore, waste products of our consumer society are given a new stage in my work.
exhibitions/projects
2018 Sob Festival, KABK, The Hague, NL
2020 Paracetamolophony, Korzo
2020 A Finger In Every Pie The Hague, NL
2021 De Buitengalerij Dordrecht, DOOR, NL
2021 Een Warme Dag, DOOR, Dordrecht, NL
2021 DOORzien, Dordrecht, NL
2022 project freedom and tolerance (as a teacher) Dordrechts Museum, NL
2022 Kabk graduation show , The Hageu, NL
2022 8X80, Dordrecht, NL
2022 Everything now is before everything, The Hageu
Awards
Stichting tot Steun Award, The Hageu, NL
https://www.kabk.nl/nieuws/encouragement-awards-to-graduates-of-2022
publication
https://www.ad.nl/dordrecht/afscheid-van-sloopflats-noordendijk-met-kunstfestival-alles-kan-alles-mag-en-we-werken-de-hele-nacht-door~a7baea87/?fbclid=IwAR0N4jSSp-Z2ZmmFfoH7gdkRO7WSCyC6VN-qsFcEwjF5P_xuO7NLbK5vUxY
Often I try to fill an apparent void in my work with subjective observations of significant figures in my immediate environment; my sister, father, friend, my ... In this way, I try to build a self-image of how I am or would like to be. Perhaps the emptiness in my work reflects the loneliness of growing up in my quest for maturity. In this light, I ask myself, what I as an artist have to say or want to say.
I have no intention of improving or saving the world. Mainly, I want to amaze myself with the power of the small, which everyone recognizes as simplicity. Sometimes this can be destructive and banal, and sometimes - by accident - it has a socio-critical charge. It ensures that my work is sometimes raw and biting, often humorous and sometimes just touching and beautiful. I try to let the various fragments of life fall apart and then glue them together again into something new in which I can recognize myself.
In my work, I also see myself not so much as an artist but more as someone who makes and/or improves broken things, a "fixer" perhaps. Maybe unconsciously, I am resisting the world's views of how I should be as a person and an artist, still trying to transform the "Me against the world" into "Me with the world". I want to show everyone what could have been. Therefore, waste products of our consumer society are given a new stage in my work.
exhibitions/projects
2018 Sob Festival, KABK, The Hague, NL
2020 Paracetamolophony, Korzo
2020 A Finger In Every Pie The Hague, NL
2021 De Buitengalerij Dordrecht, DOOR, NL
2021 Een Warme Dag, DOOR, Dordrecht, NL
2021 DOORzien, Dordrecht, NL
2022 project freedom and tolerance (as a teacher) Dordrechts Museum, NL
2022 Kabk graduation show , The Hageu, NL
2022 8X80, Dordrecht, NL
2022 Everything now is before everything, The Hageu
Awards
Stichting tot Steun Award, The Hageu, NL
https://www.kabk.nl/nieuws/encouragement-awards-to-graduates-of-2022
publication
https://www.ad.nl/dordrecht/afscheid-van-sloopflats-noordendijk-met-kunstfestival-alles-kan-alles-mag-en-we-werken-de-hele-nacht-door~a7baea87/?fbclid=IwAR0N4jSSp-Z2ZmmFfoH7gdkRO7WSCyC6VN-qsFcEwjF5P_xuO7NLbK5vUxY
contact
Email:
Biko_w@hotmail.com
Phone
06-28295607