Art
Lola Bezemer is fascinated by how our surroundings influence us and how we relate to spaces, objects and each other. In her works she proposes shifts in power balances and often gives the audience a role: sometimes they build a sculpture, or they are surrounded by textile, but the audience is always part of the work. Bezemer’s ideas are expressed through performances and installations in which the exploration and transformation of tactile materials such as textile and ceramics and combinations of them take center stage.
Lola Bezemer studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and took part in the Performing Arts Advanced Programme at Forum Dança in Lisbon. Her works have been presented in Belgium, Estonia, Germany, India, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and the USA.
Relationscapes: Encounters is an exhibition featuring six international performance artists reflecting on the theme of borders. Borders are contradictory; they protect and exclude, they reveal and conceal, they are physical and psychological, visible and invisible. Relationscapes: Encounters explores both the porosity and fluidity of these borders. A variety of themes such as chronic online presence, war trauma, power structures versus non-hierarchical systems and liminal beings are being investigated. The exhibition features installations, video, and live performances by Finn Adrian Jorkjen, Toni Brell, Karolina Rupp, Maja Zećo, Greig Burgoyne and Lola Bezemer.
