Yara Veloso

textiel, sculptuur, Internet, installatie, Experimenteel, Digitaal, cross-over, Audiovisueel, Artistiek onderzoek

In my work, I explore the (dis)comfort that emerges when humanity and technology meet. I’m drawn to the awkwardness of this encounter. I take a broad, material view of technology and my practice spans code, drawing, video, text, sculpture, and most recently, textile.

I’m interested in the tension between seemingly opposing states and their (im)possible resolution: virtual and physical, nature and technology, on and off, right and left, light and heavy, day and night, nothing and something, nothing and not nothing, same and different, same and almost the same. This line of inquiry often leads me to the idea of inbetweeness. I don’t see this as a form of compromise or neutrality, but as a point of friction.

My work is shaped by an ongoing negotiation between meaning and material. It is informed by cybernetics, media philosophy, and my experience working with technology, but grounded in physical, process-based experimentation. I’m interested in how meaning shifts through systems – technical and physical; and how working within or against those systems exposes their limits.

**the way things are going, 2022** - still In this work writing is approached as a form of technology – of language. It takes the line as a starting point and expands on its significance as a basis for communication, a bridge between drawing and writing, as well as gestures in between, like doodling and typing. The installation includes an animation, a wall painting, and custom pillows based on a stack of post-it notes I keep next to my computer. The animation uses an algorithm to generate in-between frames, seamlessly transforming each handmade word or drawing. This technique, originally developed by animation studios to streamline labor, contrasts human and algorithmic interpretations of the line. The interpretation may appear unusual to the human eye, though it makes "sense" from an algorithmic point of view. The drawings are tied to the idea of observation that historically held an important position in art but got sidelined by technological advances. With technological developments becoming rapidly absorbed into the quotidian life, there's a shift in the relation to the natural: whereby the natural feels artificial and vice-versa and we often find ourselves in the middle of this shift. Each drawing is constantly in a process of becoming, rather than simply being.

**I can choose my final form, 2025** - double weave tapestry, darning eggs, moth balls

**Frue/Talse Portal, 2023** - steel drawing, powder coated steel Inspired by the use of steel to create boundaries – gates and windows – and the material's potential for defining and manipulating space, these sculptures or "steel drawings" were made to be placed in between the exhibition rooms, playfully disrupting the flow of the visitors and exploring the idea of the "in-between".

**g gr gro, 2025** - double weave (cottolin, linen, wool)

**line by line, 2023** - fabric print with imagery sourced from Google Patents, the archive of Texture – museum of flax and textiles, personal collections and assorted found instructional illustrations

**The Death of Logic (video)** - Part of "What Happened to the Future?", with Vera van de Seyp and commissioned by Poetry International, exhibited at Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2019

**‘Ynoes’, 2023** - steel drawing, powder coated steel

**throwaway time!, 2022** - arduino board, screen, acrylic

**the way things are going, 2022 (with live sound by qihang)** - voice by Yara, sound by qihang li (https://qihang.li/)

**twtag installation view, 2022** - Pillows made from notepad scribbles and 'Ideal placement of fingers on a qwerty keyboard' wall painting, part of an ongoing reflection on technology and the body, approaching writing as a form of technology (of language) and the space around it (doodling, drawing , typing)

**hug, 2021** - Latent Space (group exhibition), Het Hem, Zaandam

**Always Hallways** - The website and its title are inspired by hallways as a repetitive motif which was prominent in the talks with De Ateliers participants. Hallways are a distinctive feature of the architectural layout of the De Ateliers monumental building. It also turned out to be an important social part of the building in times of the pandemic, lockdowns and social isolation, in which the hallways became a semi-public space for mingling and taking breathers. Concept and design with Raoul Audouin and Mijia Wang for De Ateliers Amsterdam, development by Luuse

**the way things are going, 2022** - Taking the line as a starting point and expanding on its significance as a unit of understanding. The animation technique is inspired by early animation work, using an algorithm to generate in between frames of each drawing, morphing each frame into one another. In the work, lines appear in the world, not as on object's static boundaries but as a modulative, unfixed guide for assimilation. It is how the world appears at a given moment, but not as it stays.

I Can Choose My Own Form

Datum: 08-05-2025 t/m 30-06-2025

Locatie: Vlak

Phenomena

Datum: 24-02-2024 t/m 04-04-2024

Locatie: Boerderijstraat 69a

In samenwerking met: DesignRegio, Elders Collectief

Curated by Elders

Phenomena 1.0

Datum: 19-10-2023 t/m 05-11-2023

Locatie: Kotrijk

Phenomena

Datum: 01-09-2023 t/m 29-10-2023

Locatie: Kortrijk

In samenwerking met: DesignRegio Kortrijk, Elders Collectief

Rabbit Hope Workshop

Datum: 17-08-2022 t/m 18-08-2022

Locatie: Soonsbeek Park, Werkplaats Typografie

2-day coding workshop

Table of Futile Evenings

Datum: 01-07-2022 t/m 03-09-2022

Locatie: ISO

In samenwerking met: Werkplaats Typografie

Group exhibition in the form of a tasting event in which guests were served both food and works throughout a programmed evening of 2hours

https://tableoffutileevenings.werkplaatstypografie.org/

twtag

Datum: 20-05-2022 t/m 26-05-2022

Locatie: Werkplaats Typografie

Projected video animation using a morphing technique and drawing to combine analog and digital and explore the boundaries between writing and drawing

Interactive Media Tutor

Datum: 31-01-2022 t/m 31-07-2023

Locatie: Artez, University of the Arts

In samenwerking met: Marianne Noordzij

A course on web development in a peer2peer environment where assignments and workshops are focused on interaction and publishing within the distributed peer2peer network and students develop a strong sense of the physicality of the web.

Zero Player

Datum: 04-11-2021 t/m 07-11-2021

Locatie: Galerie du Crous

Group exhibition in collaboration with Fred Cave, Joe Cave, Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques

Latent Space

Datum: 24-09-2021 t/m 25-09-2021

Locatie: Het Hem

group exhibition

Always Hallways

Datum: 01-09-2021 t/m 31-10-2021

Locatie: De Ateliers

In samenwerking met: De Ateliers, Mijia Wang, Audouin, Luuse

The website and its title are inspired by hallways as a repetitive motif which was prominent in the talks with De Ateliers participants. Hallways are a distinctive feature of the architectural layout of the De Ateliers monumental building. It also turned out to be an important social part of the building in times of the pandemic, lockdowns and social isolation, in which the hallways became a semi-public space for mingling and taking breathers.

https://always-hallways.de-ateliers.nl/

What Happened to the Future?

Datum: 21-05-2019 t/m 21-08-2019

Locatie: Kunsthal

In samenwerking met: Vera van de Seyp

As every imaginable subject can be found on the internet within seconds nowadays, the amount of information seems to be infinite. Three poems of the Poetry International archive have been selected and treated as algorithms in three different media, each musing upon a potential future. Exhibition design in collaboration with Micha Prinsen

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