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Disconnectness

Disconnectness
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when
April 2, 2022 - May 1, 2022
where
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In a novel „The Tell-Tale Heart‟(1843), a main character suffering from a schizophrenia shouts: “Didn’t I tell you that what you think is madness is actually a hypersensitivity of emotions?” 

Sensory changes are particularly prominent in the early stages of schizophrenia. For example, the main character experienced sharpened hearing. However, visual changes are more common than auditory changes. A patient depicts: 

“Now the color looks brighter. It’s like fluorescent paint. You can’t tell if things are solid or liquid. I’m not a very artistic person, but I think I’m more sensitive to color. Everything looks lively. Especially red.” 

I found this narrative very interesting because it was exactly what I went through when I had a severe depression a few years ago. And it was the starting point of my colour and pattern research. 

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Een close-up van blauw-witte geweven stof met een abstract, onregelmatig patroon van lijnen en golven.
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Isabela Verhagen

Since the heavy rainfalls flooded the streets of Valencia in 2024, I could not stop thinking about the images of the residents sweeping the muddy streets. Amid the enormous amounts of mud and water, the act of sweeping seemed futile. These pictures conveyed a clear message: people are trying to manage the damaging consequences of climate change. Starting from this image, my project depicts men sweeping the floor while standing in the water, ankle deep. In front of the sweepers, on the floor, is a house and a car swept away by the floods. The tapestries are accompanied by a ceramic fuel nozzle with a knitted oil spill attached, symbolising the fossil fuel companies that accelerate climate change. The installation is created to show the stark contrast between individuals fighting the consequences of climate change, while elsewhere, the oil tap is still running. The title refers to a Dutch saying, literally translated as ‘mopping the floor with the faucet open.

where

Wilhelminapark 24A
3581 NE Utrecht