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• About •
Sarah was born in Maastricht, 1987. She works as an independent visual artist somewhere in the lucid area between fact and fiction. Her work currently focuses on oceanic and sea-related themes of both historical and mythological origin, starting at the mid-19th century rise of interest in the marine world.
She is triggered by the unreachable sea as a location where the human imagination can play freely and new ideas emerge, due to its unboundedness. Sarah sees this metaphor closely linked to the technological developments happening in the same period, not only allowing fellow marine enthousiasts, explorers and dreamers to roam about freely, but simultaneously causing a shift in the statute of the image, opening up a search towards its new definition.
On a smaller scale (but nonetheless adding to the above themes) is Sarah’s interest for the reception of the sea and the constructive role it has played in various works and oeuvres, broadly ranging from literature, visual arts, films, explorations, to others. She believes these cases can act as precedental examples for current affairs and chooses to (loosely) refer to them in her artistic practice, in order to inspire either way.
Sarah has been appointed Advisory Committee Member Visual Arts for the Flemish Government (BE) in 2019 and contributes in Theory at Zuyd Hogeschool Maastricht (NL).
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foto (vorm, centre)
• About •
Sarah was born in Maastricht, 1987. She works as an independent visual artist somewhere in the lucid area between fact and fiction. Her work currently focuses on oceanic and sea-related themes of both historical and mythological origin, starting at the mid-19th century rise of interest in the marine world.
She is triggered by the unreachable sea as a location where the human imagination can play freely and new ideas emerge, due to its unboundedness. Sarah sees this metaphor closely linked to the technological developments happening in the same period, not only allowing fellow marine enthousiasts, explorers and dreamers to roam about freely, but simultaneously causing a shift in the statute of the image, opening up a search towards its new definition.
On a smaller scale (but nonetheless adding to the above themes) is Sarah’s interest for the reception of the sea and the constructive role it has played in various works and oeuvres, broadly ranging from literature, visual arts, films, explorations, to others. She believes these cases can act as precedental examples for current affairs and chooses to (loosely) refer to them in her artistic practice, in order to inspire either way.
Sarah has been appointed Advisory Committee Member Visual Arts for the Flemish Government (BE) in 2019 and contributes in Theory at Zuyd Hogeschool Maastricht (NL).
[ Feel welcome to connect on ︎ or ︎ ]