MY PRACTICE
I explore what is passed from one generation to the next.
My work explores how memories, experiences and hidden histories are passed from one generation to the next. Departing from my own Indo-Dutch family history, I examine the ongoing impact of the colonial past, migration and displacement, and the ways transgenerational memory continues to shape the present.
Through archival research, conversations, material study and personal stories, I bring together portraiture, photography, cyanotype, drawing and installation. What emerges is not a historically closed narrative, but a living memory, one that manifests itself in bodies, relationships and silences.
My work asks what we carry forward, what remains unspoken, and how recognition can transform the way we understand ourselves and the histories we inherit.
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Why Eva Margaretha?
My name is a return to my own women’s line.
Eva Margaretha is a name I chose in connection with my ancestor, Margaretha Adriaans. I found her name in the baptismal register of Ambon, in the Moluccas, where she is recorded as the only parent of my great-grandmother, Anna Paulina Adriaans.
That small entry opened a way into a women’s line I had previously known only in fragments. It led me back to the Moluccas and into a history shaped by migration, colonialism, loss and displacement and by stories that were not always spoken about.
But a women’s line does not only lead backwards. We are part of it too. The women who came before us shape who we are, while we ourselves become the ancestors of the generations that follow.
For me, taking this name is about acknowledging what came before me, while recognising that I am also part of what comes next.
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Eva Margaretha
VISUAL ARTIST · Stories, archives & memory
Atelier Oohm, Vogelenzang, NL