Artist Residency Project

Since September 2021, I have been developing the artist residency project It’s Already Night / No Light Above the Horizon (Het is al nacht / geen licht boven de horizon), which proposes a graphic, sculptural, and critical analysis of the social impacts and environmental aspects of industry in recent years.

Hosted by Samenschool in Antwerp, in collaboration with the MHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, the residency focused on consulting Allan Sekula’s oeuvre within the institution’s collection. The project addressed multiple territorial dimensions of industry through the lens of social movements and collective expressions in public space over the past 20 years. Planned activities included studio work with industrial materials, research in the MHKA archive, the reuse of wasted food, and community dinners.

In an ongoing partnership with Samenschool, the research continues to explore artistic practices that engage with the theme of port terminals.

In the first edition of It’s Already Night / No Light Above the Horizon, I traveled more than 7,000 kilometers by train, from Porto to Stockholm, concluding the journey during Fridays For Future in front of the Swedish Parliament. The residency also included participation with the environmental activism collective Ineos Will Fall, as well as readings on Radio Centraal in collaboration with the always brilliant Jo Caimo.

The first edition of this project was also supported by the Shuttle program of the Porto City Council. New editions took place in Antwerp in 2022 and 2023, hosted in residence by wpZimmer and Samenschool.