BIO
(°1993, Belgium)
Through the universal language of image, I search for a common understanding, beyond the barriers of culture or identity. I mostly work with documentary images and often starts off with the observations of everyday situations and encounters. Afterwards, I depict and present the elements that are based on rhythm, repetition, cultural habits or routines and search through their poetics for their universal characteristics.
I often offer the same view, but presented in a different tempo or format, which makes everything slide into a slightly different frame, yet it still remains recognizable. With images and sounds I try to create an immersive space, where there is still enough room for ones own sensorial projections which are being triggered by it.
After graduating in 2018 I entered a trainee program of an agency of the United Nations, where I had the opportunity to help build their renewed audiovisual identity. After this experience I decided to focus fully on the development of my artistic practice. Since then, my work travelled through multidisciplinary platforms like art centers, film festivals and exhibitions, with documentaries, videos, multimedia installations and photography.
In 2020 I was granted the opportunity to start developing a documentary film for the Belgian national children's channel KETNET, as part of an initiative to involve young auteurs into the children's channel. In 2021 I was selected as one of 10 promising artists in Belgium through the Art Contest competition, followed by a month long exhibition in Vanderborght-complex in Brussels. In 2022 I will be part of the Belgian selected artists who were granted a residency at Cité Internationales des Arts de Paris, through the National Flemish State of Art Fund.
SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
CITE INTERNATIONALES DES ARTS DE PARIS Resident 2022
ARTCONTEST Selected artist 2021
VAF Ket&Doc Production Grant 2021
SIILK GALLERY Residency program 2021
HET BOS Art residency 2021
VAF Ket&Doc Atelier 2020-2021
BREEDBEELD for audiovisual project development 2020
BREEDBEELD for photographic project development 2020
UN Flanders trainee program 2019
SABAM for culture grant for audiovisual development 2018
EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2021 Group exhibition ‘Artcontest 2021’, Vanderborght-complex Brussels
2021 Group Exhibition ‘Vruchtbare Grond’ at Het Bos, Antwerp
2021 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Video Library
2020 Group exhibition ‘Inside out’ by Breedbeeld
2018 Group exhibition ‘seasonalneighbours’ at Borgloon
in cooperation with Z33 center of contemporary art Hasselt.
2018 Masters LUCA at Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2018 Wijnfavorieten met beelden, Antwerp
2018 London international documentary festival
2018 World film festival
2018 Szczecin European film festival
2018 Trento film festival
2018 International documentary festival Ierapetra
2018 Roma Cinema Doc
2018 Caminhos film festival
2018 ‘14:26 CEST’ screened at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Estonia
2017 VISITE film program, Het Bos
2017 CEME doc Madrid
2017 Installation of ‘where there is no point’ at Back_up Media and Arts Festival
2017 International student film festival Belgrado
2017 Dokumentart
2016 CEME doc Mexico City
EDUCATION
2017- 2018
MA in Audiovisual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Brussels
2014-2017
BA in Audiovisual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Brussels
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Vruchtbare grond magazine
Het Bos Antwerp
2019 Womancinemakers magazine
Featured with a 15 pages spread in the 2019 issue of the biannual magazine womencinemakers, as one of 10 directors to talk about ‘14:26 CEST’ and the importance of female presence in cinema.