A Poster

Digitally Manipulated Image
2010

Here, I am making a statement on the relation between graphic designers and their posters. This is a poster of me holding a poster of me holding a poster of me holding a poster, and so on …
Contribution for the exhibition Connected Project in Breda, the Netherlands, 2010.

Che Guevara Icon

Painting (Acrylic on canvas, 40X40cm)
Intervention in the Public Space
2010

The Icon Project is an ongoing project were I play with the meaning of the word “Icon”. When referred to computers and the internet, an icon is a little image made of 16X16 pixels, while in culture, an icon is a character which is relevant for a specific reason.

The aim in this project is to realize a series of these icons as interventions in the public space. This mosaic, where each tile stands for one pixel, was realized precisely on Ernesto Guevara square, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.


In collaboration with Ricardo Portilho.

Online Masks

Most of my work is the outcome of a personal reflection on the topic of “masks”. This is a collection of more than 200 images that appears on the internet (on blogs or social networks) if you don’t upload your own image as profile picture.

Published on FACE OFF, a book by Ann Eckert.

The Collective

Contribution for The Collective. A publication on the dynamics of collectives in the context of social networks. A collaboration with Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. For this publication I wanted to draw a connection with the furthest person I could find on earth. The antipodes of Amsterdam are somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, close to New Zealand. Surfing the web, I found Prue, a girl from Dundee, New Zealand, and I designed the contribution in collaboration with her.

Equality!

Intervention in the Public Space
2007

A visual statement realized for an event on the topic of Equality, a series of lectures at the cultural center DeBalie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2007.

Contact

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