
Pick me up / Ayllu / Nuqayku
When a child is put up for adoption. It’s a life-changing moment. A crucial moment, but there’s never photos of it. Here I start to wonder what those situations could be. ‘Pick me up’ is a sculptural work where the viewer is invited to play/puzzle with the blocks. In the paintings it’s not clear if there is a parent, or someone related nearby. I hope that there is, but it is not always the case, otherwise adoption cannot exist, right? I am showing what’s already out there. It’s there in the painting on the cubes, but it’s just as hard to notice as in real life.
In ‘Nuqayku’ the canvas painting is about displacing two environments in one painting.
In ‘Ayllu’ the viewer can flip the painted panels and view the other side. In short: It’s about how I am connected to people whom I don’t know at all.