ABOUT
In her recent projects Barnet Kansil explores how she can use art to make social change. She works with refugees and migrants without residence permit. Together they work on finding new paths for the future, paths that make it possible to participate in our (their) society like all other people: “We create, co-create, we do research, we listen to what is really needed and have developments arise. Exploring, open to the unexpected, we take direction, we listen, explore again and adjust our ways. So we can come to real needed social change. A change that gives people the possibility to become self-sufficient, getting back control over their lives, moving out of the zones where they are left to their own devices and become included in our society, in their society.”
In her photography-work Barnet Kansil creates transient installations of places, locations and spaces which she photographs. Co-creating she lets other people intervene in her art pieces, in a way that her photo’s become stages for new stories. In doing so, she repeatedly creates a new reality: in the installation, in the picture, in the interventions and possibly in the imagination of the beholder.
Her work is influenced by her studies in cultural anthropology, her personal interest in cultures and myths and by the history of her Indonesian family who in the forties had to escape from Indonesia because of war and violence.
In her recent projects Barnet Kansil explores how she can use art to make social change. She works with refugees and migrants without residence permit. Together they work on finding new paths for the future, paths that make it possible to participate in our (their) society like all other people: “We create, co-create, we do research, we listen to what is really needed and have developments arise. Exploring, open to the unexpected, we take direction, we listen, explore again and adjust our ways. So we can come to real needed social change. A change that gives people the possibility to become self-sufficient, getting back control over their lives, moving out of the zones where they are left to their own devices and become included in our society, in their society.”
In her photography-work Barnet Kansil creates transient installations of places, locations and spaces which she photographs. Co-creating she lets other people intervene in her art pieces, in a way that her photo’s become stages for new stories. In doing so, she repeatedly creates a new reality: in the installation, in the picture, in the interventions and possibly in the imagination of the beholder.
Her work is influenced by her studies in cultural anthropology, her personal interest in cultures and myths and by the history of her Indonesian family who in the forties had to escape from Indonesia because of war and violence.