BIO
Doris Hardeman [1993]
Living and working in Brussels [BE] & Geneva [CH], studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague [KABK] and obtained her master degree at the University of Art and Design in Geneva [HEAD].
By exploring the broad versatility of materials across craftsmanship and mass production, Doris Hardeman challenges assumptions about utility, value, and authenticity. Her practice investigates how nostalgia operates as a cultural response to late capitalism, influencing aesthetics and domestic ideals, often driven by a glorification of tradition. Through deliberately poeticized assemblages and narrative fragments, she constructs environments that critically reflect on how tradition is staged, reinterpreted, and instrumentalized. Symbols, materials, and ornamental forms are recast with ideological meaning, exceeding their functional origins. Hardeman’s installations and texts foreground the role of fiction in shaping collective memory, revealing how objects and spaces accrue meaning beyond their function, where fiction exceeds function and ornament becomes structure. Emancipatory fictions and moments of idleness appear alongside manufactured authenticity and alienated labor. Exploring how narratives form around objects, places, and symbols, Hardeman’s work investigates how meaning is shaped, circulated, and culturally embedded.
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