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Monitor, 2025
Single-channel video loop
Found footage
Colour
Without sound
Duration: continuous

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Dead Skin, 2024
Single-channel video loop
Found footage
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Joint, 2023
Single-channel video loop
Found footage
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Duration: continuous

When the word ‘landscape’ acquired an extended meaning, namely from land to land&image or imageoftheland, it partly came from the fact that Dutch painters had come to capture extensively the swift changes in their surroundings. The latter was progressively manipulated to fit Christian values, which well separated and subordinated the earthly and natural from anything human (thus differently natural?), leading up to a long and violent process of taming and domestication. This process is not separated from the land reclamation nor the colonial history in which this takes place.
Joanne van Halteren gathers a somewhat emotionally detached AI-generated chintz pattern to provide a space for speculative swamp species, redecorating the modernist walls while witnessing a flickering and alienating yet nostalgic alternation of a stroking touch between domesticated species.

Text by Angeliki Tzortzakaki

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Manual, 2023
Single-channel video loop
Found footage
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Duration: continuous

Melk en Bloed
Melk en Bloed
Melk en Bloed


Melk en bloed, 2023
Wallpaper
Off-set print
The motif is generated by AI, made into a pattern by the artist.
Prompt: “antique chintz depicting sphagnum moss instead of flowers”

Onland
Onland
Onland
Onland
Onland


Onland, 2023

In this thesis, I examine how landscapes are and where framed in art and the power dynamics embedded in that framing. I argue that the way we depict and conceptualize landscapes has real consequences—for both society and the environment—with the human gaze playing a central role.


Pet/pat, 2022
Single-channel video loop
Found footage
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Without sound
Duration: 48 seconds



Boglog, 2021
Multi-channel video installation
Rearview projection on a ø400mm circular screen, and a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor.
Colour
Without sound
Continuous loop


Rear Window 1, 2020
Single-channel video loop
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Rearwindow 2, 2020
56.2 cm x 200 cm projection Single-channel video loop
Digital video
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Rear Window 3, 2020
Single-channel video loop
Colour
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Rear Window 4, 2020
Single-channel video loop
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Rear Window 5, 2020
Single-channel video loop
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joanne van halteren, artist based in amsterdam
contact: joanne.v.halteren[at]gmail.com