Huskrooms is a traveling installation activated through performances and unfolding intuitively through interactions with its surroundings and participants.
Comprising carefully collected and reworked abandoned textiles, the artwork interweaves relationally, like a living organism, with the space, people, weather, textures, and materials of its temporary location.
Huskrooms is a research project that began in 2022 and is continuously enriched by contributions from other artists and thinkers. It can take the form of an artist talk, an installation, a performance, a happening, an artistic intervention and more.
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The artwork aims to create a space for self-encounter, shared environment, and collective action. It invites a slower perception of time and offers an 'offline' experience. What do we allow to exist? How quickly do we discard things—objects, and people?
In a world where the relentless pursuit of progress often sidelines rituals and shared narratives, Huskrooms seeks to carve out moments for reflection and stillness, where movement and transformation can emerge spontaneously, and feelings of grief, farewell, and mourning become tangible.
The project aims to "dress" people anew—restoring warmth, protection, and a sense of humanity. Through textile objects such as blankets and structures made from hundreds of sewn-together sleeves and pant legs, an ingeniously constructed living environment emerges, inviting collaboration, dynamic interaction, and collective discovery.
The participatory nature of Huskrooms aligns with the artistic principles of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. Just as in her work, the physical and emotional experience of the individual in relation to the group is central. The project functions as a platform for connection, experimentation, and the rediscovery of the everyday, blurring the boundary between art and life.
2022, multiple artistic interventions during scientific conference Public Health Palliative Care International on invitation of Julie Rodeyns - Through Art We Care, Bruges (BE)
2023, two month art residency at psychosocial center Sint-Alexius with Workspacebrussels and Kaosvzw, Brussels (BE)
2023, artist talk at Dr. Guislain Museum with guest speakers Geert Opsomer and Rona Kennedy, Ghent (BE)
2023, research at the reception area of the youth psychiatric center Dr. Guislain, with Lucina Ra and residents, Ghent (BE)
2024, art residency with Elsa Mencagli & Paula Diogo, supported by Apap Feminist Futures and Centrum W Ruchu, Warsaw (PL)
2025, installation performance in public space during Open Studios by Workspacebrussels, supported by Kaaitheater, with Kito Kotsoane and Leonie Buysse, Brussels (BE)
2025, one month art residency with Judith Trepp and Vince Montague at Metropolitan Fukujusou, Kyoto (JP)
2025, three month expo at De Lovie with Wit.h & Kaos for 'Crip Stories', in collaboration with Kito Kotsane, Poperinge (BE)
2025, two week art residency, BUDA, Kortrijk (BE)
2024 - ongoing, art residency with artistic interventions on site of Dr. Guislain Museum and psychiatrical hospital,
in collaboration with Kito Kotsoane (multidisciplinary artist & fashion designer), Julie Rodeyns (curator & consultant - Through Art We Care), Rona Kennedy (multidisciplinary artist), Henny Baeken (body-oriented therapist), with contributions of Robinia Kersten (textile artist) and
Lucina Ra (theater group), with the financial support of Flanders State of the Arts / research grant 2024–2026, Ghent (BE)
performance installation and artistic intervention in public space during Open Studios by Workspacebrussels with support of Kaaitheater
series of artistic experiments and interventions
at Dr. Guislain Museum and Psychiatric Hospital
in collaboration with fashion designer Kito Kotsoane, theater collective Lucinda Ra and the residents living on the site
art research residency at psycho social center Sint-Alexius
with Kaos & Workspacebrussels
2 month research residency taking place in the psycho social center in Elsene, Brussels
artist talk about research residency with Kaos & Workspacebrussels
at Dr.Guislain Museum
artist talk with guest speakers Rona Kennedy and Geert Opsomer about research residency taking place in the psycho social center in Elsene (Brussels) taking place in Dr.Guislain Museum