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Over mijn praktijk

Ik werk vooral in het uitgebreide veld van fotografie, waar het medium kruist met andere vormen van maken en technologie. Fotografie stelt mij in staat samen te werken met machine-intelligenties en de natuurlijke wereld. Hierbij wordt het fotografische beeld ruw (digitaal) materiaal of data die ik vertaal naar nieuwe zintuiglijke en temporele ervaringen. Dit transductieproces vormt de basis voor mijn onderzoek naar de gemedieerde relaties die we hebben met de wereld om ons heen.

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My mind, as a friend once told me, is a philosophy lab disguised as an art practice.

"As a child, I created my own worlds; tying rubber bands to tree branches to let the wind sing or collecting spiders to weave a garden of sparkling webs. These early experiments weren’t just playful; they were my way of opening a dialogue with my environments and systems beyond human language and logic. I sought to create spaces that spoke in wonderful sensory ways, offering a refuge and a sense of connection in a world that felt uncertain at times. Today, as an artistic researcher, I carry that same sense of wonder into my practice. My work explores how humans and the more-than-human world can meet, share stories, and create meaning together. At its core is the belief that rethinking our relationships with the world, and our place within it, requires embracing the agency of more-than-human entities as active participants in the narratives of our time. Collaboration with nonhuman entities lies at the heart of my process. I see myself as a conduit, setting up conditions where the human and more-than-human together create new knowledge. These collaborations span a spectrum of entities: storms, trees, urban spaces, and technological systems such as cameras, code, and sound processing. Here, I explore the intersections of the more-than- human world, human perception, and technology. Through my research, I invite people to meet the more-than-human world not as something separate but as an active storyteller and collaborator. These encounters invite viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world, imagining themselves as part of a larger, interconnected narrative where every entity (human or not) has a voice worth listening to."


Studio
Jacob Catsstraat 2 
2515 GL Den Haag
m: +31 642702380
email: jzwaap@icloud.com

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