through her floor, my ceiling

essay
2020

What drives us to glean inside other people’s homes and lives? What sort of image are we able to construct in that way? What are the limitations of the eye in trying to capture daily life? And can our ears offer a more ‘authentic’ glimpse of lives that are not our own? An essay in four parts in which I discuss the above questions alongside references from Johannes Vermeer to Big Brother, media theory, and my own experiences of living in an old flat in Amsterdam Osdorp.

Published in: Simulacrum Year 28 #2. Language: Dutch.
Full title: Door haar plafond —mijn vloer— heen. Een glimp van het leven van een ander.

Photos of the article published in the magazine.

contact

message me
instagram

about

Textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. I work with textiles and other material forms as a way of thinking and researching. I thereby treat these materials as tools to expose and unsettle taken-for-granted views and naturalized routines of daily life.

read more | commissioned projects