I am speaking with a roommate in our shared living space. Hanging against my doorframe, I find myself on the boundary between my room and the shared hallway. In doing so, I am unconsciously not giving her access to "my" space, but I do enjoy interacting on the boundary between the shared hallway and my private space. The doorway makes it possible. Click goes in my head. The doorway first gives structure and then space for social flows.
From then on, the focus of my practice will be on observing structures that give definition to the living environment and allow people to "be" somewhere. I investigate how man-made architectural structures relate to social structures. With my work, I hope to make people aware of many recurring structures in the living environment. I do this by making reconstructions and having them (re)discovered within an alienated context.
The door
Sculpture
2025 191x89x5 cm
Glass, casting
courtesy of: Make Eindhoven & Banas Glass
Art Rotterdam, Prospects '25
'The sculpture De deur (2025) is an exact copy of the artist’s front door, but now executed in glass. Fenna Koot (1996) lifted her own wooden door with glass windows off its hinges and made a mould of it. She filled this mould with glass which she melted in the kiln. The glass sculpture she created in this way not only contains all original details of the front door, but also maps its daily life: from the knocker and the peephole, to paint streaks and signs of use.
Historically, front doors are often seen as reflections of social status and hierarchy: the bigger the door, the more important the owner. Koot is also fascinated with front doors because they mark the boundary between the private domain indoors and the public space outside. Serving as both blockades and gateways, these are usually controlled by the people who live behind them. In this case that’s the artist herself. The specimen in Koot’s installation cannot be opened, but you are able to see straight through it.
About Building
Installation
2022 85x100x85 cm
Glass
studio image
The individual sculptures that make up The Apartment at that time need a building skeleton. Searching for a form, I come across Plattenbau, a highly systematic building method with its origins in post-war destroyed Germany. The political ideology behind this efficient method of construction was the short-term unfolding of a socialist ideal state. I find it intriguing and confrontational at the same time that a structure is used to impose an environment where different lives have to function in similar cubicles next to/below/above each other. The resulting work About building is a modular glass installation consisting of hundreds of building elements. The installation (which has never been fully constructed) can precisely hold its own weight; frictions or vibrations from outside could lead to its collapse. The work has an extremely organized and balanced appearance, physically it is in a fragile state at the same time.
Banister, Next level!
Sculpture
2022 180x30x360 cm
wood
Eighttrack Studios, Brussel (BE)
Within the current growth-oriented Western society, I like to keep myself busy with making stairs. In the series of ‘steps’, I try to give the right to exist to a non-functional and non-efficient approach to ‘growth’.
Trap, kast, kelder
Sculptuur
2022
17,x9x30 cm
wood
studio image
De Hoeken
Sculpture
2020
20x1,2x210 cm
Metal
St. Joost School of Art & Design, Breda This work stems from curiosity about the corners of a space. It is made in such a way that it is just stable enough to stand, when you put them down they dance for a while. The total of six frames presented in varying arrangements create the space of The Apartment. In 2021, this photograph became part of the publication of IS PAS D'ESPACE by Maud van der Beuken, Margot Zweers & Loek Grootjans in Park Tilburg.
De Deurpost
Sculpture
2020
85x7x231,5 cm
wood
Electron, Breda
De Muur Sculpture
2020
80x30x100
Basalt, stucco, wood
Electron, Breda
One push and you unbalance The Wall, the work represents a duality between grip and instability. Despite the heavy weight of the object, it is easy to move with a pump truck, however, this construction makes the wall unstable.
