Suzette Bousema
Suzette Bousema (NL, 1995) visualises contemporary environmental topics in collaboration with scientists. Planetary conditions and our place in them are the starting point in her work; the way humans interfere with nature and how we relate to the Earth on an individual level. For her artworks and installations, she works interdisciplinary with photography, printmaking, glass blowing, weaving, sound, smell and organic materials such as seaweed.
One of Bousema’s inspirations is ‘ecological hyperobjects’, described by philosopher Timothy Morton. A hyperobject is such a big or abstract object, that we cannot see or touch it, but only experience it through its effects. Examples of ‘ecological hyperobjects’ are global plastic pollution and global warming. Through her multimedia projects Bousema aims to gain a better understanding of environmental topics that are hard to relate to, because they are for example invisible, too abstract, too small or too immense to grasp.
Most recently, her work is featured in Framer Framed’s exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and And Deltas After Modernity (2026) on the inextricable links between water, colonial expansion and territorial exploitation.
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