Anouk van Klaveren explores objects as physical translations of collective belief systems. She is fascinated about how garments and objects embody cultural norms and values. By intertwining fiction and non-fiction, her work playfully analyses the driving forces of fashion’s seductive nature. Trained as a fashion designer at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, fashion and its normative structures became a theme in a more and more interdisciplinary practice, instead of a medium of expression.

She started experimenting with performance, interviews, site-specific interventions and sculpture