Twan Lugten

To [un]become: a point of departure. I don’t know what lies behind the veil / the skin / the screen? but I am drawn toward it. [sigh]. Much more work needs to be done. Only when it answers back do I know something is present. I cannot ignore this. Now is the time to let go."

Twan Lugten is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, and audio, his practice explores lived experience and material-performative inquiries into the formation of selfhood as a personal and shared process. Departing from states of instability, Lugten engages with the unknown and darker realms of the individual and collective psyche. His work is informed by his background as a medical doctor in public health, emergency medicine, and dementia care, as well as by post-colonial lineage connected to the Dutch East Indies. This situates an ongoing investigation into containment—physical and psychological, supportive and restrictive—as a condition we continuously inhabit.