BLIND REALITY AND THE AESTHETIC TRUTH
IRIS DONKER (’s-Hertogenbosch, 1986) is a visual artist working from Eindhoven. Her practice unfolds through moving image, installation, text and sound, and is driven by an ongoing artistic research into how images, memories and narratives circulate, transform and persist over time.
At the core of Donker’s work lies an ever-expanding archive of images, built through intuitive processes of collecting, filming, writing and assembling. This archive functions as a dynamic source from which elements are continuously reworked and translated across different media. Rather than treating images as fixed entities, Donker approaches them as fluid components that can be fragmented, repeated and repositioned within new spatial and material contexts.
Her work is rooted in intuition and improvisation, yet shaped through careful composition and reflection. By deliberately leaving room for coincidence and openness, Donker resists predetermined outcomes and allows meaning to emerge through association, rhythm and spatial experience.
At the core of Donker’s work lies an ever-expanding archive of images, built through intuitive processes of collecting, filming, writing and assembling. This archive functions as a dynamic source from which elements are continuously reworked and translated across different media. Rather than treating images as fixed entities, Donker approaches them as fluid components that can be fragmented, repeated and repositioned within new spatial and material contexts.
Her work is rooted in intuition and improvisation, yet shaped through careful composition and reflection. By deliberately leaving room for coincidence and openness, Donker resists predetermined outcomes and allows meaning to emerge through association, rhythm and spatial experience.
Materiality and spatial composition play a central role in her practice. Donker develops installations in which image, sound, text and material operate as equal forces, unfolding as spatial experiences that activate both the environment and the viewer. Light functions as a key element, altering perception and dissolving spatial boundaries.
Exhibitions function as concentrated moments within a longer artistic process, where research and presentation are closely intertwined. Alongside her autonomous practice, Donker regularly engages in project-based collaborations with writers, musicians and other makers, integrating text and sound as content-driven layers within her work.
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Exhibitions function as concentrated moments within a longer artistic process, where research and presentation are closely intertwined. Alongside her autonomous practice, Donker regularly engages in project-based collaborations with writers, musicians and other makers, integrating text and sound as content-driven layers within her work.
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