Kirsten Heshusius
In permanent state of changing by Kirsten Heshusius, photo by Moon Saris
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kirsten Heshusius is trained primarily in the practice of performance making through her work with important site-specific and visual theater groups in the Netherlands. In 2010 she began to make her own solo work based upon a perspective changing experience traveling in Iran.
Her work is best described as visual poetry provoking universal thoughts about the world and existence itself. She develops her ideas in her atelier where her material research is persistent and on going. Within her performances she deals with body transformation and strong but minimal visual imagery often based on autobiographical events. Because the body functions as a mirror, through the transformations she provokes sentiments of recognition. Architecture and history provide a departure point placing the work in its surroundings.
By performing, I aim to exchange with the viewers. To make this possible, I search for images through actions and materials, body and space that have a potential to communicate. Through these images, I try to connect on a metaphysical level, a level where words are subordinate.
Performance is an encounter, a place to question, to explore through the visual, memories and feelings both from the past, the present and the near future. For the performer and the audience it is an activity to communicate with emotions, why not in tears, in anger or in remembrance to ones own experiences. My aim is to make performance for everybody, not only for experienced viewers.
