Jeanne Vrastor







ABOUTJeanne Vrastor
Photo: Roman Ermolaev 

 
 Upon graduating from Sandberg's Dirty Art Department in Amsterdam in 2021, Jeanne Vrastor committed herself to researching the entangled relationships between objects, materials and human beings. She is fascinated by what the entanglement can tell us about how we, humans, can understand ourselves as part of a much wider and messier universe. Vrastor conceives intelligence as a relational, embodied, and material phenomenon. Minds and things are continuous and co-constitutive. We do not merely use objects; we become through them - and the other way around. 

A trademark of her practice is a deep engagement and profound knowledge of the material properties and behaviour. It is as if through her work, Vrastor aims to build intimate relationships with the materials she works with, considering them to be our life lines to ancestral knowledge and future pasts. 

The shapes of her work are based on images she found through online archival research, in the exhibition displays of anthropology museums or body memory. Contrary to common understanding of objects as finished, passive beings, containing the secrets of our past, in Vrastor’s work, material and objects as collaborators with agency. Vrastor has spent an intensive period with the SCOBY, supporting its growth through feeding it sugar and tea, helping it to fight the flies. The aluminium works have had a completely different life trajectory; from archeological findings to archival photos, digital material, 3D models - and now aluminium printed objects.
Written by  
Berber Meindertsma



The work was made possible thanks to the support of the Mondriaan and Stokroos Stiching.


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