Hostile City

Class discrimination remains a blind spot in Dutch society. It is subtly woven into our daily lives using elements such as anti-homeless spikes to restrict unwanted behavior and people in public places.

[portraying social inequality through aggressive design].
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Junkie monkey

Are house pets more at risk of becoming addicted to drugs because of their non turbulent lives? Or because they have difficulty with the superficiality of everyday life?

[a series of animals struggling with addiction &/ unwanted behavior]
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I am 'ik'

Nail biting is seen as a mental disorder; an uncontrollable repetitive urge to bite nails. It can be a sign of an underlying mental problem.

What defines abnormal behaviour?

[visualizing cultural norms]
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Multidisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Collage art & illustration

In her artistic practice Xenia Gott prefers an intuitive approach when she captures her random (online) impressions into figurative collage sketches..
Influenced by shape, color and rhythm Xenia combines layer upon layer with drawings, magazine snippets & texts.

She’s found this randomized method appeals to her imagination and works well with the fragmentary manner in which she paints her stories on canvas.

Recurring themes in her works are struggling anti-heroes, wrestling underdogs; characters that often reside on the edge of society.

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‘Blackbox’. Painting/illustration, digitally adapted for (ab)Nomalie artbook. 2021 #painting #illustration #artbook #mixedmedia

‘Blackbox’ refers to AI because when you put data into the AI system it’s not fully understandable or opaque how AI got to its result.