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Happybirthdayto.[name] is an online and (pop-up) 'real life' platform, that hosts and archives an artistic research project on the charged moment of social conventions, expectations, and emotions that lie beneath the birthday's decorated layer of sweet cakes and brightly coloured plastic trash.
Dear [name],
I am 26 and I still don’t sleep well the night before my birthday. It is a yearly returning moment where my thoughts and feelings are quite a mixed bag.
These experiences are the starting point for this project. Since a year, I design a
