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In Paulien Ribbens’s textiles, memories from her childhood are enlarged. Events and experiences are dramatised or, on the contrary, minimised and combined with various other situations. This creates colourful, absurd and perhaps confusing scenes, starring her little alter ego.
There's a hole in my head
Her work is not about traumatic memories. Rather, the simplicity of the everyday is central, in which humour and joy are central. It is precisely these mundane things that are often very exciting for a child. Thus, it is rather an idyllic picture of childhood experiences, with occasional minor disappointments that feel very big; a period when dilemmas, difficulties and problems were no bigger than your thumb. Paulien Ribbens re-embodies the position of her six-year-old self and builds a textile narrative from this perspective.
