Oli D'Cruz
Oli D’Cruz works with video, animation, sculpture and puppetry to build fictional and possible worlds. Through these worlds, they question the disproportionate effects of systems of extraction on bodies and land. They’re interested in the relationships that are made either possible or impossible as a result of these systems.
Over the past two years they have been developing a practice of puppetry. Learning about its historical use in playfully subverting the state, a skill that has become increasingly valuable under current regimes of surveillance and censorship. Alongside their practice, D’Cruz develops workshops for children that encourage engagement with local ecologies while centering playfulness.
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Fe203 A Dream (2022)
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Je droomt ook van jezelf als een schepsel van het moeras (2023)
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Of tremors and tides (2022)
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The Sinking of Big Daddy Casino (2025)
Oli D'Cruz (1996) is a visual artist and animator. In 2020, they completed a Bachelor’s degree in Illustration and Animation at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, and in 2025, they graduated with a Master’s degree in Planetary Poetics from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. They took part in a residency programme at Kunsthuis SYB in Beetsterzwaag and have residencies planned for 2026 at the Aga Lab in Amsterdam and the Puppet Incubation Lab in Delhi. D'Cruz’s work has been exhibited and performed at venues including Zone2Source, Framer Framed, Grey Space in the Middle and the Tschumi Pavilion. In 2020, they won the Academy Minerva Artistic Research Prize and were shortlisted for the Sybren Hellinga Art Prize in 2022.
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