July 2025

Click image to enlarge "Mediterranean Future", or more precisely "Meditarraneam Sea 2323 AD", has something of a horror vision, but is nothing more than the bringing forward of a fixed change by around 10 million years, when the Strait of Gibraltar will be closed by tectonic movements. Incidentally, this situation already existed about six million years ago.


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Click image to enlarge “Cringe” focuses on the youth language that passes most of us by, but at least once a year reaches those who are no longer young, when the youth word of the year is announced. The work features a short mini-cartoon depicting a youth language situation in a place where young people spend (at least should spend) most of their youth, school. It quickly becomes apparent that two (linguistic) worlds collide here. Youth language is multicultural, creative, innovative and definitely has its own aesthetic in its spontaneous...


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Click image to enlarge “Zero Zero–System 605 is Down” refers to the narrative of a concept album by British musician Mike Batt that was released in the early 1980s and became my favorite at that time. “Zero Zero” (the name of the album) tells the story of a dystopian future society from which all emotions have been banished, in which human feelings are to be reduced to nothing (“zero”). If feelings do arise, the people concerned are sent to an emotional decontamination facility called “Zero Zero,” a place where emotions are lobotomized...


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Click to enlarge image “State of Qatarsis”—the work commemorates the migrant workers who died during the construction of stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. It also draws attention to the existence of modern (wage) slavery and forced labor (not only in Qatar), which officially no longer exist in modern societies. The strategy of “panem et circenses” (bread and circuses) still works as it did in the ancient Roman Empire, albeit in a new guise. Major global events such as the World Cup serve as important distractions, uniting and entertaining...


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Click image to view completely Don't you sometimes get the feeling that suddenly nothing is clear anymore, even though everything seemed so obvious up until that moment? This can happen, for example, when you take a closer look at something you previously took for granted and realize that it's not what you thought it was—the familiar becomes unfamiliar. It's something like the centipede effect: if you think too hard about walking, you'll stumble. “Cut–Lacking Clarity” reflects such a moment of disorientation—a moment as if clouds are obscuring...


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