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Machteloos

The Dutch word for powerless/helpless, as the closest English translation would read.


Video projection loop with ultrasound echo of my intestines, lungs, liver and stomach. On top of the video

projection is a ticking clock which makes the viewer aware of every passing second.


Machteloos is an installation about impalpable reality. I don’t own time, neither could I control time. Time is

the measurement of my existence. This results in always having a battle with time. Being somewhere on

time, dealing with mental baggage through time, cleaning my house before the dust will beat me.


Time owns us and that is what this projection is translating. Time is fixed, just like my peristaltic

organs. Uncontrollable, peaceful and in sequence.




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