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).
Installations & artworks
Salt of the Earth
3D-animtion, soundscape, salt
(2017)
The Salt of the Earth takes its title from an old English saying and unfolds in three layers. Salt, once used as currency, symbolises the labourers who carry society; a single grain stands for the human being.
The second layer is an animation in which the earth becomes a star, evoking existential wonder and reminding us of our smallness within the vast whole.
The third is a soundscape that resonates with the present, linking salt and animation to today’s condition and asking: who are the farmers, citizens and outsiders of our rapidly changing world?
I created this work for Arnhem’s Open Monument Day, “Boeren, Burgers en Buitenlui”.
A Cosmic Anxiety (3D-animation)
Our Earth (soundscape)
Salt Of The Earth (1000 kilo salt)
The installation is exhibited in the Free Catholic Church in Arnhem during Open Monument Day
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