remember to smile
2022
Over time, I realized that broken things are not easy to put back together.
In September 2014, I broke my front teeth in a scooter accident. I was eighteen years old at the time, and from that moment on I went to the dentist every week for years.
Even though time passed, the results of the treatment did not show,only more problems and bills. At the age of twenty-five, not being satisfied with the work done and still having problems with my teeth, I went to see another dentist who immediately revealed that I had been mistreated for the past seven years. I finally understood that my previous dentist had neglected my case.
Remember to smile is a storytelling project that aims to describe the pain of repeating the same problem and mistake. Through associative images I wanted to review the hours spent in the dentist’s chair, trusting and listening to someone who should have known what they were doing. Through my personal experience, I’d like to show the anger and frustration of a story of negligence, with a little humour.
- PH Museum
In September 2014, I broke my front teeth in a scooter accident. I was eighteen years old at the time, and from that moment on I went to the dentist every week for years.
Even though time passed, the results of the treatment did not show,only more problems and bills. At the age of twenty-five, not being satisfied with the work done and still having problems with my teeth, I went to see another dentist who immediately revealed that I had been mistreated for the past seven years. I finally understood that my previous dentist had neglected my case.
Remember to smile is a storytelling project that aims to describe the pain of repeating the same problem and mistake. Through associative images I wanted to review the hours spent in the dentist’s chair, trusting and listening to someone who should have known what they were doing. Through my personal experience, I’d like to show the anger and frustration of a story of negligence, with a little humour.
- PH Museum
As Above, So Below
From the 19th till the 23rd of January 2023.
From the 19th till the 23rd of January 2023.
The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, Netherlands
Group Exhibition with The Fool Collective
Group Exhibition with The Fool Collective
An exhibition featuring 40 projects from The Fool Collective, at The Grey Space in the Middle in The Hague.
‘The Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus wrote:
That which Below corresponds to that which is Above
And that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below
To accomplish the miracles of the One Thing
As above, So below marks the second chapter in the Fools journey. 'The Fool' is a guide and reminder to wear our open hearts. As we begin refining our practices, old links gradually fade and make space for new connections. We have constructed a network of interconnected individual works where materiality shifts between the fragile and the solid. We invite our audience to shape their interpretations and interrelations to create new paths of understanding.
By embracing, we allow alignments of elements. Immaterial and material, from our different positions and knowledge. All together we create stories told in various visual languages. They can produce order and new negotiated meanings. Our stories are wired in the middle but disperse their individual points, allowing them to take different turns and directions.’
‘The Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus wrote:
That which Below corresponds to that which is Above
And that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below
To accomplish the miracles of the One Thing
As above, So below marks the second chapter in the Fools journey. 'The Fool' is a guide and reminder to wear our open hearts. As we begin refining our practices, old links gradually fade and make space for new connections. We have constructed a network of interconnected individual works where materiality shifts between the fragile and the solid. We invite our audience to shape their interpretations and interrelations to create new paths of understanding.
By embracing, we allow alignments of elements. Immaterial and material, from our different positions and knowledge. All together we create stories told in various visual languages. They can produce order and new negotiated meanings. Our stories are wired in the middle but disperse their individual points, allowing them to take different turns and directions.’
This publication was made in the context of As Above, So Below, a project by 3rd-year photography students of the Royal Academy of Art, KABK in January 2023.
The Hague, DPT. of Photography, 2022/23.
Pre-production dummy - Not available yet
Paper stock
Cover - Ivory 120gr
Carboard - Cardboard 1,0 mm
Inside - IBO one 60gr