Pauline Oosterhoff
Dutch, 1968
www.onderzoekende-kunstenaar.com
"What Remains is rooted in years of research with survivors, bereaved and activists of femicide. It is a modular work of interconnected pieces, each part presenting a different entry point or perspective: public protest, the threshold of home, private grief and support held and passed in bodies, love that continues after death. The people I work with decide what they share, how, and whether at all. The right not to share is in the work itself.
My work celebrates and commemorates simultaneously.
There was love: irrational, beautiful, heartbreaking, violent, unpredictable.
The pathways to murder are often only clear in hindsight. This is real.
Some things are known but not said out loud.
As an artist I open space for what cannot be put into words.
As an anthropologist I examine what is hidden by choice or by force.
I see my practice as cultural acupuncture: interventions, objects or visuals designed to gently puncture hardened societal patterns, release hidden tensions and revitalize stagnant thinking."
