Overzicht, Timeline of abuse, gecensureerd, doopkleedjes
Foto: K. Vrancken
Esse est Percipe, which grew out of a previous project on foundlings and abandoned children, evokes the ghosts of children abused by the clergy.
The fragile free blown empty glass 'Christening Dresses' recall the fragility of childhood.
Nobody knows how many vulnerable children were brutalised by clergymen.
Unable to forget, the victims bury their painful memories in order to try to live on. The 'timeline', a literally and metaphorically black line that his facts for centuries, dates back to the roots of the church.
Censuré (censored), glass castings of eyes that cannot or refuse to see, are embedded in this line.
Where the church's power is waning, it becomes unable to censor testimonies long kept quit.
Out of a dark silence, hidden voices finally cry out into the secular world.
Once published, their words are impossible to censor.
