Marijke de Jong
NEW ZEALAND
Marijke de Jong is a multidisciplinary artist and editorial photographer of Dutch and Israeli descent. Marijke currently lives in the Bay of Plenty with her two children. With subtle beauty, Marijke negotiates complex terrain in her lens-based artwork, exploring underrepresented subjects such as motherhood, generational trauma, ancestral legacies, and minority cultural identity. Her art practice focuses on reparative aesthetics and modes of care and healing that transcend time and place, predominantly relating to her Jewish roots. She turns to ancient wisdom and ritual for inspiration and believes art can be a universal language of unity that can awaken new paradigms of awareness and knowledge within societies.
SESSION INFO
00 - 00pm
Mothering Jewish Trauma: Transmuting intergenerational Holocaust trauma through visual art
Artist Marijke de Jong will be presenting her thesis that accompanies her artwork, Did they have to be quiet? Radically Repositioning Trauma and Mothering Through a Wit(h)nessing Lens, 2023. This project explores how a camera, as a third party, can play the role of a witness and listener that can bring new awareness and knowledge of the impact of Holocaust trauma on mothering. Straddling both the therapeutic and visual arts space, Marijke offers an innovative blueprint for healing Jewish trauma.