As a visual artist, Chiel’s (1994, The Netherlands) motivation is built upon the embodied experience of an ‘inner-act,’ which arises within the dynamic interplay between two entities and is distinguished by a bodily-felt affect. This ‘inner-act’ serves as a means to capture his resonance with rippled structures in the natural and agricultural landscape.

HUMAN-NON-HUMAN

Chiel’s creative practice is composed of field research and investigative alchemical techniques for making materials from degradable and natural substances, primarily sourced from the vegetal and geological realms. By dissecting, deconstructing, and translating a phenomenon or object, Chiel seeks hidden features on various scales of anatomy, capturing its potential and building poetic compositions. At its core, Chiel’s artistic practice revolves around understanding the movement and co-existence of entities and their densities. The underlying question that is constantly present explores the human position in relation to non-human entities.