Didianne Leusink – Performance ‘Verdwalen tussen lichaam en materiaal’ (Lost Between Body and Material)

In this 30-minute performance, Leusink wears a large ceramic vase upside down on her shoulders, obscuring her vision and muffling sound. At the same time, a soundscape plays, featuring recordings from workshops — captured while shaping raw materials and found objects — as well as sounds from walks through various landscapes.

The result is an interplay of natural and crafted rhythms and materials. With this, Leusink questions the materiality of living and non-living forms — what we are made of, what we move through, and everything that exists in between. The garden of Marres, with all its human and non-human life forms, becomes a temporary stage where artist, environment, and materials improvise together.

Didianne Leusink (1996, Netherlands) is a visual artist whose work explores the human impact on nature. Her practice often emerges from organic materials and artisanal craftsmanship. She works with raw elements such as crushed stone, plants, and ash, as well as handmade glass djembes, ceramic vases, and painted curtains — objects that have been given a recognizable form.