Aukje Dekker

Aukje Dekker experiments with a range different media such as film, performance, photography, spatial installation and painting. As she says herself "I prefer to take a situation as the starting point rather than laying the starting point within a certain situation.  This can be a feeling, an event or a thought, whatever is keeping my mind busy at that moment."


For one of her previous projects  she made 24 paintings of the exact same image in collaboration with Jack Lewis. As such questions of authorship were put forward, the relationship between the viewer and the art work as well as the inherent value of a work. On a second level the issue of uselessness arose, the act of making art as a compulsive reflex?

In the Apartment Project Aukje Dekker will present a video work engaging with similar issues as well as the notion of physical endurance. Next to that a print will be shown from her MA degree show at Central Saint Martins. This consisted out of the room-sized video installation 'Verwend Ongenoegen (Spoilt)', where a series of men were projected against the walls  while continually vomitting paint in all the colours of the rainbow in glitters.