Claire Sillekens

“If I can get paid to pick edible flowers 17 hours a week and receive daily compliments on my blond braided hair and tiny red shoes, it means that I am receiving an audience and a stage in society. What if I use this exact audience and stage to reflect on that stage: who I am sharing it with, how often we’re on it and who else should be there?”

Taught as a workshop-based designer at Maastricht Institute of Arts, Claire Sillikens’ strength lies in the usage of many different techniques, materials and making them work together. Her work mainly takes the shape of costumes, attributes and decor-pieces. This aligns with her aim to direct herself more towards the field of theatre, as the temporal nature and the need to collaborate attracts her. Aside from this, Claire works as a gardener and lives, cooks and cares in one of the oldest activist buildings in Nijmegen.

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