patricia kaersenhout
At art school, they said that my work was too narrative. So I said this is a good starting point. I’ll make it more narrative. I tell the critics, my culture is narrative. We share our history through stories because you won’t write about our history.
patricia kaersenhout via Global Voices, 2018
A descendant from Surinamese parents, patricia kaersenhout (1966, the Netherlands) developed an artistic journey in which she investigates her Surinamese background in relation to her upbringing in a Western European culture. The political thread in her work raises questions about the African Diaspora’s movements and it’s relation to feminism, sexuality, racism and the history of slavery. She considers her art practice to be a social one. With her projects she empowers (young) men and women of color and supports undocumented refugee women.
