Be it melting wax figures, epoxy nickel-plated portable sculptures moulded on human genitalia, gigantic, looming nails or expressional video installations, Van Looveren’s work interrupts the sustainability of traditional value systems and poses a deeper, background inquiry in gender normativity, resulting in an original and thought-provoking look at the human body, “an instrument that we put into motion.”
“I am both a participant and a creator,” the artist says. Van Looveren identifies as gender-fluid. As much as their work on the wider scale challenges the arbitrary social constructions and outdated gender politics, Van Looveren’s practice is imbued with the responsibility to queer communities catalysed by their personal experiences. The silence of their grief screams in conceptual anarchy of colours and forms that defies gender and exists in the fluid domain, the substantiality of the conceptual framework allowing the artist to create work that not only challenges but evokes, protesting for freedom to exist, which is “a valuable and radical act in itself.”