What if connection begins with discomfort? What happens if you don’t avoid that discomfort, but invite it in? Connection sounds like a given fact, but it isn’t. You have to want it, dare to seek it, and DO it. It requires attention. It requires presence.

In the exhibition ‘From the Soul to the Soil’, four artists bring together their work as an invitation to encounter. Using various media—photography, video, textiles, poetry, and performance—the artists reveal, from their own perspectives, how we relate to what feels vulnerable, and how in this vulnerability, new forms of intimacy can emerge. All the artists in this exhibition use their bodies to seek this connection. Connecting with ourselves, connecting with the earth, and connecting with each other within social structures and power dynamics.

This exhibition touches the fringes of being human. What unites the artists is a desire to look beyond the surface. To feel the discomfort and create space for a new conversation and way of living together.

Impression of the artists

Tessa explores our internal world. Our intangible feelings, fears, desires, and failures that we often suppress. She makes them visible and tangible to remind us that that’s what connects us.

www.tessavdeeden.com

Diewke connects activism with art. She uses the camera as both a witness and a tool for change. Her work explores the deep interconnectedness of larger societal systems, how we suffer from them, and how we can heal from them.

www.diewke.nl

Bibi-Joan questions how social constructs and power dynamics influence our self-image and relationships. Through a playful, observational approach, she encourages us to see things differently and become aware of how we connect with ourselves and others.

www.bibi-joan.com

Onno believes that creativity and creative energy connect us all, that creation leads to the all-encompassing source of which we are all a part.