{"id":4256,"date":"2022-07-15T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwstaging.keesdeboekhouder.nl\/lisette-van-hoogenhuyze-in-de-kern-zoek-ik-naar-een-universele-beeldtaal\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T09:15:42","slug":"lisette-van-hoogenhuyze-im-searching-for-a-universal-visual-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwstaging.keesdeboekhouder.nl\/en\/lisette-van-hoogenhuyze-im-searching-for-a-universal-visual-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisette van Hoogenhuyze \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m searching for a universal visual language\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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UNFAIR2022 will take place in the Westergas, Amsterdam. Forty upcoming and renowned artists present their work 15-17 July. As a proud sponsor of UNFAIR2022 we ask several artists of UNFAIR2022 about their work and what drives them. This time we spoke to Lisette van Hoogenhuyze.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Artist Lisette van Hoogenhuyze will make her debut at Unfair this year, with a collection of colourful painting-like installations. She studied art history first, followed by a second study at HKU art academy during which she declared her love to the beach; something that\u2019s always reflected in her work. From her new studio in Lisbon, she\u2019s now making the final preparations for the Unfair exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Are you already busy preparing for Unfair?
<\/strong>\u201cAbsolutely. And I also had to move out of my studio, so everything came at once: finding a new studio, finishing my work for Unfair and everything else related to that. But luckily I didn\u2019t have to move home again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Do you move around that much?
<\/strong>\u201cI move often, yes. Haha! I\u2019ve been living in Lisbon for about 10 months now, and I will stay here for some time. In recent years, I moved from The Hague to Utrecht, to Amsterdam, to Berlin, to Mexico City, back to Amsterdam and I now live in Lisbon. I love to discover and experience everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you have a profound fear of missing out?
<\/strong>\u201cPerhaps I have none at all. The more you travel, the more things you\u2019ll miss in the Netherlands. By getting to know more people and places, you realise even more how much you miss things, but also how you actually don\u2019t miss anything at all, as you\u2019re getting so much in return.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you prefer to describe what you do?
<\/strong>\u201cI want to inspire people with my work, and to make them think. I often play with shapes and colours that evoke different associations and constantly set the viewer on a different track. Things have to be playful, funny and surprising, but at the core of what I do is the search for a universal visual language that we all understand and feel.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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What\u2019s your connection to the beach?
<\/strong>\u201cI\u2019m from The Hague and my grandparents used to live in Zeeland. So I spent all my summers on and near the beach. To finance my second study at the academy of art, I used to work fulltime in a beach bar during the summers. It was called Naturel and located next to a nudist beach. It was situated on this kind of hill, where all these naked and dangling bodies were prancing around, playing badminton and manoeuvring themselves into strange yoga positions. I witnessed many extraordinary scenes and scenarios that would be intimidating and inappropriate in any other context. It all left quite an impression during my formative years at the art academy. And I almost always visit beach sites during my travels. People on a beach aren\u2019t stressed or worried about work. It kind of seems to be like this \u2018in-between area\u2019, literally between water and land, where all you need to do is just to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your connection to Unfair?
<\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ve visited Unfair a few times, but this is the first time I\u2019m participating! There are exhibitions you can sign up for yourself, but for Unfair you need to be invited. It\u2019s an extremely cool opportunity for artists, because the organisation has this big and unique approach. For example, the spaces at Westergas Fabriek where our works are displayed, are designed by architects. So the exhibition space is probably already a work of art in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

What will you be showing at Unfair?
<\/strong>\u201cI use a mix of canvas, raw cotton and paper for my wall installations. And I also experiment with materials such as steel, wool, ceramics, oil and acrylic paint. I\u2019ve been working on a new series for Unfair, in which the different elements are interacting with each other within the frame more. Layering and materiality still predominate, but they\u2019ve taken a different path, like me. Moving to Portugal has made the narrative more personal and the search more visible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are you an entrepreneur?
<\/strong>\u201cYou have to be one, right? Until you\u2019ve made such a name for yourself that you can start to outsource certain things. Until then, you\u2019re your own manager, planner, website builder and head of communication all rolled into one. But I sure do have an entrepreneurial side, and I also think that\u2019s something that\u2019s really necessary as an artist. The idea of an artist in an attic room with two bottles of wine is kind of pass\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n

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