The artist aims to set something in motion with her work: she wants to generate new experiences, feelings and meanings. The installation TEARS (2021) consists of a giant eye with a tear and rolling Zorbs: human-sized transparent balls that you can climb into and move around in. Visual art comes together here with dance and play.
The rolling balls represent other tears. Are they tears of joy or of sadness? The tension between laughter and crying, between lightness and intensity, gives the work a theatrical dimension. Step into a Zorb yourself and move along — or would you rather just watch?
Through these movements, emotions and interactions, art can create meaning. Tears hold transformation: they move you from one emotional state to another. They are also something pure and universal — the only bodily fluid that is not seen as unpleasant, and one that is recognised as such across all cultures.