Residency time: July & August 2025
Show time: 20th of September at 20h during Vruchtbare Grond festival
Who are your biggest artistic influences?
I’m extremely inspired by Lou K (Lucie Lefauconnier): an author, guitarist, composer, and performer creating rock music in French, characterized by darkness, softness, or deep roar: a combination that speaks to me a lot and aligns in some quirky ways with my compositions. I also take a lot of inspiration from soul and jazz artists such as WILLOW and Billie Holiday on the other hand, not only for their music, but the way the embody it in their lives.
What motivates you to create?
Whenever I don’t talk back to my artistic voice, I’m throwing away art that could’ve existed and could’ve been a tiny influence for something or someone. I create as a continuation of one artist’s work and a starting point for another’s. And believing in the importance of all these threats in-between us artists, makes me want to create all the time. Next to this, I have to say that my anger and resistance towards our current politics can be a big driver to create as well.
How can your work affect societal issues?
As a 20-year-old queer multidisciplinary artist, my work is deeply rooted in the desire to question, disrupt, and reimagine the structures that shape our society. Through music, movement, and performance, I create spaces where alternative narratives can exist, where queer love is tenderly centered, where feminism isn’t just spoken but embodied, and social injustice is addressed.
I believe that art has the power to crack open fixed systems, by talking to single souls and eventually changing perspectives collectively. My performances often combine jazz, soul, and alternative indie sounds with physical movement in a way that feels instinctive, awkward, sometimes chaotic, but very honest. I love working in between disciplines, in between definitions, and in between people. It’s in these liminal spaces that I find the most beauty and potential for change. I aim to be part of a mycelium, an interconnected artistic network that grows underground, quietly subverting and connecting. By letting the body speak when words fail, I hope my work doesn’t just reflect the world as it is, but nudges it toward what it could become: more open, more tangible, more aware.