BIO
Doris Hardeman [1993]
Living and working in Brussels [BE] & Geneva [CH], studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague [KABK] and obtained her master degree at the University of Art and Design in Geneva [HEAD].
Through paying close attention to the broad versatility of materials in terms of craftsmanship and the mass production industries, the work of Doris Hardeman plays with the utility and original value of her chosen materials, amplifying connotations concerning the industrial manufacturability of our present time. Both on a material and conceptual level her practice reflects on our present-day western-focused obsession with authenticity. The term authenticity, functioning here as a nostalgia driven ideology aiming to escape a catastrophe ridden future doomed by late capitalism, serves as a lens through which she considers its influence on cultural trends. Considering how different contemporary aesthetics are classified in terms of uniqueness and transgression versus tradition, she tries to understand how the hierarchization of her subjects define the way we shape our collective memory.
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