Jacqueline Heerema (Den Haag, the Netherlands)

June 13th - 30th, 2022

In search of the miraculous –
(layers of) time – Earth – climate – sea – soil – fossil – artifact – imprints or impression of something or someone…

Conceptual artist and (sub)urban curator; Heerema’s fascination and engagement are much more concerned with the development of 'art as object' to 'art and context' and 'art and audience' and exploring the arts as more fluid instead of solidified (institutionalized) culture of ‘art as public space’, as a dialogical space offered by art. 

During her residency at CasCaDas ArtSpace, she continued her empirical field research into perceptions of time. While exploring the beaches and neighbourhoods of Barcelona, she got in touch with timeless movements of sea, natural resources and humans. Triggered by contemporary social notions that state that ‘Barcelona has always had an underworld centred in El Raval’, she is curious how interactions with the subsurface, or a life that is hidden from daylight can challenge our contemporary worldviews. At the intersection of art, geology and archeology she follows traces of Neolithic relics, beneath the contemporary buzzing life in El Raval, that include a specific kind of pottery, decorated with imprints of marine shells; of disappearing sands; and seeks to dig up clay.