Vivian Heyms presented her project 'The Modern Dutchman' at TAC during Dutch Design Week.Graduated from AKV|St.Joost, with her project Vivian questions the Dutch Identity.
When
my work, the modern Dutchman, was created, there were many
conversations in the media about Dutch identity. For me this was the
reason to start investigating with the question: "What is the Dutch
identity?" I don't think I can give an unambiquous answer to this. After
all, identity is always in motion. But what I want to show with this
work is a contemporary image of the Netherlands.
What
struck me is that the cultural heritage is experienced as typically
Dutch, even now in the present. While many art objects are not
representative of the Netherlands of today, but also not of the
Netherlands of the time when original artworks were made. The image did not give a complete picture of
the reality at that time. It's a one-sided perspective. For this reason,
I think it is time to change this image and thereby show a more
representative image of the Modern Dutchman.
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