Denk Roze
Jente Ros (2001) is an artist who works from a deep fascination with flowers. The colours and textures found in flowers are something she explores through her paintings. By using different and mixed materials, she tells stories about her family and femininity. The textile works tell the story of three generations of women in her family and their lives as women, including feminism in both their lives and her own.
The use of flowers, embroidery, fabric, and beads is often seen as ‘feminine’. This raises the question of whether her work is too stereotypically feminine. By exploring this doubt, she discovered that it is actually a strength. It becomes a way to celebrate, acknowledge, and redefine femininity. From this process, a natural connection to feminism emerged: how women’s positions have changed across generations, which freedoms have been gained, and which patterns continue to exist.
Her work connects nature, ancestry, and femininity. Ros works with different materials, creating multiple layers. By building these layers both literally and figuratively, she searches for images that feel both alienating and intimate. By zooming in on organic forms, new abstractions emerge that invite the viewer to come closer.