First International Exhibition — Paris

In September 2025, I showed my work internationally for the first time at Le Rendez-Vous / Episode II in Paris.

I showed six photographic works and three video installations, presented on old CRT televisions that I transported to Paris myself. The televisions were generously provided by Sam van Stapel (StapelTV, The Hague), and became an integral part of how the moving images were experienced in the space.

The exhibition unfolded over an evening and the following day, in a setting that brought together photography, video, ceramics, food, wine and conversation. The atmosphere was informal and generous, allowing the work to exist alongside many other disciplines.

I traveled to Paris with my brother. We drove there together, and the exhibition became part of a longer weekend in the city. Paris has always held a certain pull for me — a place I imagine returning to, perhaps staying for longer one day — and being there with my work, even briefly, felt close to that idea.

Late one evening, in a Japanese-French restaurant called Les Enfants Rouges, we ate a soup that immediately reminded us of our mother. The association was instant and unexplainable, like being a child again at the kitchen table. A drunk Frenchman at the bar overheard us, leaned in, smiling, and said: “C’est une madeleine!”

“Une madeleine de proust.”

It felt like the right word for the weekend. Memory surfacing through taste, place, and coincidence. I know I’ll return to that moment — and to that word — again.

With thanks to Jacobien Vink for the organization and invitation.