SISU
SISU – Installation by Evanne Stiekema
In SISU, you enter a space constructed from transparent cheesecloths, stamped with words that resonate with my search for movement, doubt, and surrender. As a visitor, you physically move through this path. The installation invites slowness: only when you allow your body to be guided by the cloths does what was previously hidden unfold.
Within this secluded space, you encounter various works born from repetitive actions, attention, and the process of making itself. A layered lithography piece reveals white circles as you slow down. Tears in the paper draw your gaze inward, to the edges of the action. In SISU, you'll also see a black paper, built up from thousands of circles—each circle a movement, a breath, a rhythm.
SISU demonstrates how vulnerability and rhythm can together form an image. Not as a result, but as an invitation to experience.
Evanne Stiekema (Groningen, 1998)
My work moves between doing and letting happen. With minimal materials and simple, repeated actions, images emerge where texture, rhythm, and the physical process remain visible. Through repetition in my work, I seek a way to deal with perfectionism and control, and to create space for the unexpected. The works invite stillness, concentrated looking, and getting lost in subtle shifts. My practice centers on exploring pedagogical questions, such as resistance, slowness, and the value of reflection. By creating with minimal means, not only an image is formed, but also a space where thinking, feeling, and making converge.
