Fine artist & researcher
Artist Statement
An everyday object can open up broader reflections on moral questions. Take, for instance, the purchase of a vacuum cleaner: what begins as a practical consideration unfolds into a scene about ownership, aesthetics, ethics, and what ‘clean’ might truly mean. In my work, such questions take form through spatial and textual compositions, where the everyday and the philosophical meet and continue to unsettle one another.
I approach situations with lightness, keeping moral questions in motion rather than locking them into fixed positions. Doubt is an active principle in my practice. What counts as ‘good’ arises within political, legal, and social contexts, and is rarely neutral. I explore that tension not from a distance, but through my own lived experience, which becomes material for shaping larger questions.
info@reneevanoploo.nl
works may be for sale