wildermann
The title is inspired by Charles Freger's "Wildermann". In this book he documents the tradition of making and wearing masks, by indigenous people across the continents. When I was in residence in Sweden in 2020, his images inspired me to create some of my own (with the help of Frederike) "Wildermann".
2026, in her soloshow 'Transmutation" at Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, the Korean-Dutch artist Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) reflects on a superior eurocentrism in life and art, and brings historic events and Korean shamanism together. In her multimedia display "Four months, Four Million Light Years (2020)" she reflects e.g., on the violent eradication of shamanic cultures in Asia. Charles Freger shows, however, that also in Europe these shamanic rituals are still survive today,
