Ankie van Kasteren(1996,NL) is a visual artist whos practice spans across photography, collage, installation and sculpture.
I like to create spaces where image, narrative, and social friction meet. My work often begins in the margins of systems, of memory, of what is deemed ‘proper’ and builds itself through careful visual intervention. By borrowing from both lived experiences and archival traces, I rearrange the known into something familiar yet disobedient.
Working with personal testimonies and photography, I trace the ways shame, power, and care are negotiated, imposed, or pushed back against. My method is layered, both materially and thematically: collage, text and print echo the fragmented nature of the lived experiences. I approach making as a social ritual, one that conjures what is usually kept invisible or illegible. To talk about what cannot be discussed.
Each work exists somewhere between autobiography and collective memory, between resistance and reverie. If anything, I consider my practice a form of post-documentary alchemy: shaping meaning not by telling a story straight, but by letting its cracks speak.
