Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher
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I am a visual artist, lecturer and researcher. I teach in the Art & Research programme (since 2021) and Photography, Film & the Digital (since 2023) at St. Joost School of Art & Design, and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT). I am also a member of the art collective YAFF and the art alliance The Long Tail of Art.
My artistic practice centres on the relationship between art, shared experience and ethical reflection. Through installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects, I develop situations in which artistic practice creates space for collective inquiry into current dilemmas in art, education and society, and the assumptions and reflexes that shape them. I hold a background in Fine Arts (cum laude, St. Joost School of Art & Design) and Applied Ethics (MA, Utrecht University).
Essay
Gut Feeling
Doubt, Ethics, Artistic practice, Fictional dialogue
INTRODUCTION
This essay takes the form of a fictional dialogue in an electronics shop, where the purchase of a vacuum cleaner gradually turns into a reflection on quality, doubt, ethics and artistic practice. What begins as a practical encounter between customer and shop assistant shifts into a conversation in which the roles of customer, shop assistant and artist move in and out of focus. The dialogue unfolds through two alter egos, an ethicist and an artist, which allow me to articulate how hesitation, ambiguity and moral tension shape attention within artistic practices. The essay explores the dilemmas of artistic practice when confronted with the cultural industry and the pressures of capitalist logic, where efficiency, consumption and value tend to dominate. Rather than resolving these tensions, the essay leaves them open, showing how meaning can emerge through the act of allowing a measure of doubt.
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