Please Take Nothing But Memory centres on a pigment migration technique, in which layers of varnish, dirt, and superficial pigment are chemically lifted from antique oil paintings and transferred onto textile. Developed in collaboration with restoration experts, this process yields faint imprints that are then mounted within various antique objects sourced from local auction houses, selected for the way they circulate within the auction house’s value system as seemingly discarded fragments of the past.
Exhibition view of the group show Summer Selection at PLUS-ONE Projects, Antwerp, Belgium, 2025
Exhibition view of the group show Summer Selection at PLUS-ONE Projects, Antwerp, Belgium, 2025
Various; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century staircase ornament, neoclassical style, built from oak wood; various sizes
Exhibition view of the group show Summer Selection at PLUS-ONE Projects, Antwerp, Belgium, 2025
Installation view of Daan Couzijn’s solo booth at Art Brussels 2025, presented by PLUS-ONE ProjectsThe burning heart; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 19th century folding screen, Louis XV style, built from walnut; 124 × 184 cmHare; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century trumeau, Louis XIV-style, built from oak wood; 180 x 88 cm
Portrait Of A Young Boy With A White Frill; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, stretched in late 19th century fire screen, Louis XV-style, carved from oak wood; 108 x 58 cmStill life with goose and game; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century double-doors, Louis XVI style, built from walnut; 170 x 100 cmPlease take nothing but memory; 2025; text hand-carved in 18th century Versailles parquet panel, Louis XIV-style, built from oak wood; 85 × 85 cmAmong the doctors; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 19th table screen, Louis XV style, built from oak wood; 48 x 85 cmVarious; 2025; pigments of antique oil painting on textile, mounted in 18th century staircase ornament, neoclassical style, built from oak wood; various sizes
Thinking of Holland explores the artificiality of cultural memory — and questions the authenticity of Dutch national identity — by revisiting the romanticised aesthetics of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch landscape and seascape painting. The series presents synthetic scenes drawn from art-historical imagery, transposed into the traditional medium of oil painting.
Exhibition view of group show From Raster to Vector, RADIUS – Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2024
Various; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 35 x 45 cmAs it echoes the waves that yearn to return; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 35 x 45 cmVarious; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 35 x 45 cm
Various; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 35 x 45 cm
Churches and elm trees, all wondrously planned; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 35 x 45 cm
Installation view of booth at Art Düsseldorf 2024, presented by PLUS-ONE Projects
Installation view of booth at Art Düsseldorf 2024, presented by PLUS-ONE Projects
Installation view of booth at Art Düsseldorf 2024, presented by PLUS-ONE Projects
Untitled; 2024; Digital carvings on oak wood; 40 x 50 cm
Find me along the far horizon, up to my neck in the offing; 2024; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 160 x 120 cm
In The Dutch Mountains reflects on the tension between authenticity and artifice in Dutch visual culture. It takes the Dutch flower fields, consumed by tourism and reduced to cliché, as its point of departure. The series presents AI-generated interpretations translated into oil paintings by a craftsman specialising in large-scale reproduction, creating works that are both original and derivative.
Exhibition view of group show The Overstory at Modern Animals Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023I lost a button of my shirt today; 2023; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 20 x 30 cm
Where the river runs high above the rooftops; 2023; Generative Adversarial Network; oil and embroidery on canvas; 20 x 30 cm
Holier Than Thou is a video installation in which a digital character performs a theatrical lament from behind a glory hole. Drawing a parallel between the glory hole and the Catholic confessional booth, the work explores the paradox of anonymous intimacy and the yearning for connection through acts of exposure and concealment. The character, an avowed atheist, appears to denounce religion while gradually revealing a longing for the very transcendence he rejects. Caught between scepticism and devotion, he articulates his faith in disbelief, confessing to a God he cannot bring himself to believe in.
Holier Than Thou; 2021; dynamic CGI animation, rendered in 3D software. Untreated steel, opaque and engraved plexiglass
Beautiful Impact is a video work that portrays the allure and exhaustion of a self sustained by melancholy. It explores how emotional intensity can become a form of dependency, an identity continually seeking affirmation through its own fragility. The work centres on the longing for a symbolic collision, a moment of impact that might rupture this cycle and offer release. In tracing the desire for its own undoing, the work reflects on the paradox of finding comfort in one’s own collapse.
Beautiful Impact; 2019; dynamic CGI animation, rendered in 3D software
Forever Online is a 15-minute video that investigates how digital technologies shape contemporary identity. Drawing on the inexhaustibility of online content and the aesthetics of social media, the work reflects on the construction of the self within virtual spaces. It examines how ideals of visibility and self-presentation emerge from an interplay between desire, imitation, and exposure. Oscillating between fascination and unease, the work portrays a subject caught in the pursuit of an image that can outlive its maker, an avatar that remains, indefinitely, online.
Forever Online; 2017; dynamic CGI animation, rendered in 3D software