For ORIGINE, I immersed myself in the life and work of Piet Mondrian, whose ideas about order, abstraction, and spatial structure continue to resonate with my practice. In the summer of 2023, I undertook a residency in Winterswijk, where I grew up and where Mondrian also spent part of his youth, at what is now Museum Villa Mondriaan.
I worked in an old textile factory: an active weaving workshop on the ground floor and, above it, a large abandoned space that became my studio. This layered environment connected production, memory, and experimentation, shaping the conceptual framework of the project.
Mondrian treated his studio as an extension of his work, carefully organizing space to reflect his artistic principles. Inspired by this, I approached my studio as a site where thought, image, and spatial arrangement could continuously interact.
Over two months, I collaborated with eight artists and creatives, including designers, scenographers, a mime artist, my former painting professor, and also artificial intelligence systems. Each collaboration resulted in installations responding to Mondrian’s visual language-line, color, rhythm, spatial flattening, and the tension between order and chaos. These installations were later translated into paintings, where different perspectives merged into layered compositions. Through this process, I explored how collaboration can generate new spatial logics and how painting can act as a record of shared thinking.
ORIGINE reflects on how Mondrian’s ideas continue to shape contemporary practice, and how a studio can function as a space where ideas, space, and image continuously evolve together.
ORIGINE
For ORIGINE, I immersed myself in the life and work of Piet Mondrian, whose ideas about order, abstraction, and spatial structure continue to resonate with my practice. In the summer of 2023, I undertook a residency in Winterswijk, where I grew up and where Mondrian also spent part of his youth, at what is now Museum Villa Mondriaan.
I worked in an old textile factory: an active weaving workshop on the ground floor and, above it, a large abandoned space that became my studio. This layered environment connected production, memory, and experimentation, shaping the conceptual framework of the project.
Mondrian treated his studio as an extension of his work, carefully organizing space to reflect his artistic principles. Inspired by this, I approached my studio as a site where thought, image, and spatial arrangement could continuously interact.
Over two months, I collaborated with eight artists and creatives, including designers, scenographers, a mime artist, my former painting professor, and also artificial intelligence systems. Each collaboration resulted in installations responding to Mondrian’s visual language-line, color, rhythm, spatial flattening, and the tension between order and chaos. These installations were later translated into paintings, where different perspectives merged into layered compositions. Through this process, I explored how collaboration can generate new spatial logics and how painting can act as a record of shared thinking.
ORIGINE reflects on how Mondrian’s ideas continue to shape contemporary practice, and how a studio can function as a space where ideas, space, and image continuously evolve together.
