Critical Studies
Jeanine van Berkel+
Place of birth: Curaçao, Curaçao
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Jeanine van Berkel (Curaçao, 1995) is a graphic designer, visual researcher, and writer. She is interested in what way her multi-ethnic body relates to the bigger colonial structures —especially focusing on the relationship between Curaçao and the Netherlands. In her ongoing research through the semi-forgotten memory of herself and (un)known history of her various motherlands, she explores urgent questions and shapes what silence looks like. For the performance and installation A Score for Silence, van Berkel combines concepts of ghosts and haunting with ideas about the relationship between Curaçao and the Netherlands, intertwining these with her personal, forgotten history. By reshaping questions of the past, van Berkel shapes her present.
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