Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher
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I am a visual artist, lecturer and researcher. I teach in the Art & Research programme (since 2021) and Photography, Film & the Digital (since 2023) at St. Joost School of Art & Design, and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT). I am also a member of the art collective YAFF and the art alliance The Long Tail of Art.
My artistic practice centres on the relationship between art, shared experience and ethical reflection. Through installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects, I develop situations in which artistic practice creates space for collective inquiry into current dilemmas in art, education and society, and the assumptions and reflexes that shape them. I hold a background in Fine Arts (cum laude, St. Joost School of Art & Design) and Applied Ethics (MA, Utrecht University).
Installations & artworks
Thinking Landscape #2
Little Flake, Little Hair, Little Booger
Ceramics, wood, steel, fans, electronics, vacuum bags, LED lighting, dog hair, sand, wisdom teeth, cushion stuffing, 3D animation, robot vacuum, screen.
(2024)
Little Flake, Little Hair, Little booger is an ode to our dirt – the invisible traces we leave behind that bind us to one another. The idea arose when I got rid of my very first vacuum cleaner and realised it had collected particles from everyone I had ever loved. It raises the question: when does something that comes from us begin to be seen as foreign or impure? This thought forms the basis of an essay underpinning the work.
The installation consists of irregular, ceramic, formless vacuum bags in which parts of that first vacuum cleaner are embedded. The bags breathe; the table legs are made of ceramic vacuum hoses. In the animation, the vacuum cleaner becomes a space in itself. We are drawn into the bag – a microcosm within a macrocosm – where flakes, hairs, and tiny traces of snot drift weightlessly together.
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Philosophical framework
My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene
Exhibited @ Murf/murw festival
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