reading between the lines 2025
photography and moving image
reading between the lines is an interpretation of the built environment from a female perspective. Inspired by the feminist collective Matrix and their manifesto Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment, in which they state that cities are built and designed by and for men, I began to examine my own position within the city. I notice that I am drawn to moments where nature seemed to interrupt or soften the built environment. Moments that feel like acts of care toward their surroundings, such as a branch brushing against a car, pine needles floating in a spiderweb, or a ribbon tied around a marble pedestal.
I visited botanical gardens and city parks, worked in my personal space, with my girlfriend and the objects around me to document and stage such moments. Together, these fragments form an interpretation of how these spaces can feel when time is taken to look beyond the first layer. In this way, the act of noticing, collecting, and staging becomes a proposal for how care, softness, and attention can reshape the spaces we inhabit.
Opening 20 September at Galerie Ron MandosOpening 25 September at Sanquin