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Autoimmune Machines
"overthinking while executing minor actions", 2025

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Installation View (photographer: Eric De Vries)

4-hour-long procession, moving from one side of the room to the other.


𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵-𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 —- 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

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Installation View (photographer: Nati Hoki)

Installation View (photographer: Gert Jan van Rooij)

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A detail from the installation:
An intervention inside an electrical box

it's moving!!!

My practice explores power relations as an internal conflict—within a body, a figure, or a structure that is shaken by different forces. I imagine this conflict manifesting as a form of self-attack, an autoimmune-machine producing a chain of breakdown and consolidation, self-mutation, self-mutilation.

In my graduation work this machine unfolds as a slow-moving procession—crawling from one side of the room to the other, stretching the distance and duration between the two points. It incorporates ceramic body fragments and connectors made from both soft and rigid materials, creating nuanced dynamics among the parts.

Small skin-vehicles, like ants, dragging behind them fragmented figures—each pulling the next, exerting tension on one another. The structure appears like a super-organism: a recurring, multiplied figure that is both homogeneous and heterogeneous, acting at once as a self-army and as a body constantly on the verge of collapse. It does not determine whether it is a convoy or a parade, whether it desires to arrive—or whether it is merely slowing down that very possibility.

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Highlights from the process

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