Leaky Cases is the title of my solo exhibition at the Bewaerschole in Burgh-Haamstede. Everything is constantly in motion – capital, goods, ideas, people, microbes, etc. Nothing remains solidified – through all these movements, embraces and collisions, everything is subject to change: microbes, for example, travel in and with people through seas and other landscapes.

Leaky Bag XXXL is a giant bag made of fermented textiles and leaks tagetes seeds and residual materials from my work processes. . I asked a number of Burgh-Haamstede residents to bury pieces of canvas at self-selected locations. After a period of time, the canvases were dug up. The canvases are full of movements and changes, stains and holes. After digging up 12 of the 13 canvases – one canvas was taken by the soil – I sewed the canvases into Leaky Bag XXXL. Attached to the bag are labels listing information about the canvases (location, duration, people involved, etc.).

Leaky Boxes are carpets composed of cardboard boxes I collected in various supermarkets. I cut these boxes apart, arranged them according to texts, symbols, logos, images and colors, and sewed them back together again, creating a large tapestry of new dynamics, contradictions, displacements, patterns and cross-connections. 

Roy Voragen selected publications about migration and borders. Roy unpacked A Curated Suitcase together with the audience. Roy also wrote 17 new performance scores – which I hand-embroidered on textile cloths –  playing with and critiquing borders. 

For the painting Welcome to the lonely planet (from the series Typology of an ideal landscape, 2011) I visited travel agencies pretending to go on a trip to gain access to the world of vacation advertising and brochures filled with stock photos of people sunbathing and skiing. By revisiting the work and recontextualize it in this exhibition I intended to let the painting leak onto the floor and allow for its connotations to shift and redirect.