Sint Lucas Masters 2023-2024
WRAPPING, KNOTTING, TYING: TENDER TENDRILS AROUND SOFT SKIN

WRAPPING, KNOTTING, TYING: TENDER TENDRILS AROUND SOFT SKIN

Lore Van Aken

Applied Context  2023-2024

GIRLHOOD AS RESISTANCE

A new era: being soft in an ugly, emphatic, intricate, complex way. A new being: the Guman, the comPOST-girl, who makes ‘kin not babies’. The ground-human, a little girl, a person, kissing the rock they hold in the palm of their hand. Their hair and tendrils are wrapped around their limbs as they become one with all that they love.