ARTIST TALK—PAULINE OOSTERHOFF
On June 2, Pauline Oosterhoff will give a lecture. Together with Matt Steinglass (Europe correspondent, The Economist) she will facilitate a dialogue with Vietnamese and Dutch-Vietnamese (nail) artists, entrepreneurs and policymakers about the charged dynamics between nails and migration.
PAULINE OOSTERHOFF
As a visual artist and social scientist, Pauline Oosterhoff investigates ‘public secrets’, matters that everyone knows but is unwilling or unable to acknowledge in public. Her work invites the viewer to reflect on their choices and opinions about ‘the other’. She creates autonomous work, as well as commissioned work. Pauline lived and worked in Vietnam for eight years. Since 2003 she has been making films, installations, research and programs with Vietnamese people, including a shelter for victims of human trafficking in Hanoi. Her work with Vietnamese women has received several awards, including the World Bank Innovation Award. As a researcher, she specializes in voluntary and involuntary migration, including human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery. She is working on a book; The Miraculous History of Nail Salons: How Vietnamese reinvented the nail salon and changed global beauty.
ARTIST TALK
2 June, 19:00 h doors open, 19:30 h start
LOCATION
Stille Veerkade 19
The Hague
Free entrance and wheelchair accessible
This artist talk is part of the exhibition Nails.
Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL and Gemeente Den Haag.