Suzette Bousema
Suzette Bousema’s practice reflects on contemporary environmental topics in collaboration with scientists. Planetary conditions and our place in them are the starting point in her work: the way humans interfere with nature and how we relate to the Earth on an individual level. Her work is interdisciplinary, utilizing the mediums of photography, printmaking, glass blowing, weaving, sound, smell, and seaweed.
A source of inspiration for Bousema is Hyperobjects, a book by philosopher Timothy Morton: Hyperobjects are big or abstract objects that we cannot see or touch, but only experience through their effects. Through multimedia projects she uses all the senses to gain a better understanding of environmental hyperobjects, like climate change or global pollution.
Image on the right: Mapping Dutch Waters, 2023, in collaboration with Thieu Smeets
Browse works by Suzette Bousema
Suzette Bousema
Written in Sediment (2023)
Suzette Bousema
Super Organism (2021)
Copyright RADIUS CCA / Photo by Gunnar Meier
Suzette Bousema
Seaweedfilter (2023)
Suzette Bousema
Future Relics (2018)
Suzette Bousema
Contemporary Air Archive, in collaboration with Wilfred Kalf
(2019-ongoing)
Suzette Bousema (1995) is an artist currently based in Den Haag. In 2019 she graduated from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) with a BA in Photography. Bousema’s work has been exhibited at PAN Amsterdam, Prospects at Art Rotterdam, Museum Singer Laren, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival and Photoville, New York.
Her works were acquired by numerous private and public collections, such as Lakeside Collection, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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