Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher
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As a visual artist I bring together practice and reflection, using installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects to question how art might create space for shared experience and ethical thought. Alongside my practice I teach at St. Joost School of Art & Design and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), and I work collectively as part of YAFF.
Installations & artworks
Thinking Landscape #2
Little Flake, Little Hair, Little Booger
Ceramics, wood, steel, fans, electronics, vacuum bags, LED lighting, dog hair, sand, wisdom teeth, cushion stuffing, 3D animation, robot vacuum, screen.
(2024)
Little Flake, Little Hair, Little booger is an ode to our dirt – the invisible traces we leave behind that bind us to one another. The idea arose when I got rid of my very first vacuum cleaner and realised it had collected particles from everyone I had ever loved. It raises the question: when does something that comes from us begin to be seen as foreign or impure? This thought forms the basis of an essay underpinning the work.
The installation consists of irregular, ceramic, formless vacuum bags in which parts of that first vacuum cleaner are embedded. The bags breathe; the table legs are made of ceramic vacuum hoses. In the animation, the vacuum cleaner becomes a space in itself. We are drawn into the bag – a microcosm within a macrocosm – where flakes, hairs, and tiny traces of snot drift weightlessly together.
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Philosophical framework
My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene
Exhibited @ Murf/murw festival
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