masks, action
mixed media, filmstills

wearables
mixed media

2018-2019 ideal weather conditions existed in unannounced walks with masks of a cloud, a sun and a rainbow. The people wearing them aren’t actors or performers — they, just for today, choose to go through life as a weather element — playing with the fluid nature of identity. Tomorrow they may switch masks or return to being ‘just human’, but today, they provide their environment with the ideal weather conditions for a variety of activities. 

With this work, I gave form to a personal desire to become a cloud. 
Starting from my own questions around gender and sexuality, I began to reflect on the broader discourse surrounding queerness. Inspired by transgender identity politics — particularly ideas of fluidity and self-definition — I began to play with the notion of imagining a self beyond the human form. By walking through the city as weather elements, we explored what queerness means in relation to public space — observing how people react to otherness with curiosity, openness, and a sense of play. 

Ideals weather conditions marked the beginning of my relating with things and natural elements. By stepping into the shoes - or clouds - of something other than human, I wanted to explore our capacity for empathy and the imaginary worlds we construct. Worlds shaped by religion, myths, fairytales, and sacred stories — the alternative realities we turn to in order to escape, understand, or rewrite our own. 

Hanne Geerinckx as sun
Deveny Faruque and Stijn Van Renterghem as rainbow
Jade Kerremans as cloud

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