Newcomer Mara Verhoogt, recently completed her studies at Chelsea College of Art in London. Her work looks at the convergence of humans and non-human beings. Through self-portraiture and body modification, she reinvents and disrupts rigid identity structures.
In I Want to Be the Moment in a Dream, Verhoogt transforms the gallery into a delicate, surreal landscape. Inspired by the lyrics of the Romanian love song „If You Were a Willow by the Shore,” the exhibition moves between nostalgia and transformation, blending imagery of nature, urban life, and fantasy into a deeply immersive sensory experience. The work fosters a dialogue between control and liberation, order and indulgence, portraying summer as an amplified emotional and aesthetic state.
