Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher
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BIO
As a visual artist I bring together practice and reflection, using installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects to question how art might create space for shared experience and ethical thought. Alongside my practice I teach at St. Joost School of Art & Design and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), and I work collectively as part of YAFF. Essay
Gut Feeling
Doubt, Ethics, Artistic practice, Fictional dialogue
INTRODUCTION
This essay takes the form of a fictional dialogue in an electronics shop, where the purchase of a vacuum cleaner gradually turns into a reflection on quality, doubt, ethics and artistic practice. What begins as a practical encounter between customer and shop assistant shifts into a conversation in which the roles of customer, shop assistant and artist move in and out of focus. The dialogue unfolds through two alter egos, an ethicist and an artist, which allow me to articulate how hesitation, ambiguity and moral tension shape attention within artistic practices. The essay explores the dilemmas of artistic practice when confronted with the cultural industry and the pressures of capitalist logic, where efficiency, consumption and value tend to dominate. Rather than resolving these tensions, the essay leaves them open, showing how meaning can emerge through the act of allowing a measure of doubt.
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