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What is better: to die or to reproduce? Within Werkplaats Oerol, Eva Bartels explores pressing questions that resonate with the painful phases of our earthly existence. Together with you, she explores the rituals that have emerged and how we relate to the non-human world around us.
Bartels intertwines her work with the occult Earth Works of Cuban-American performance artist Ana Mendieta. Through re-enactments and group rituals with the audience, such as a living burial and group fertilisation, she closely follows Mendieta’s process, aiming, like her, to restore the relationship between humans and nature. Bartels places herself as the suffering subject in an attempt to free herself from guilt, shame, and imposed traditional norms. During this struggle, she questions herself and those around her, searching for new forms and rituals that fit the grey areas of our time.