bEam arts
CURRENT RESIDENT ARTISTS
CALL SÖDERHOLM
Calla Söderholm (She/Her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work lives in a tactile realm. She plays with interactive senses in order to envelop the bodies of viewers through textile sculpture, wearable works, installation and performance. Raised in Toronto, Söderholm grew up with a background in ballet where she developed an affinity for sewing pink fabrics together. In her current practice she uses this urge to create atmospheres that investigate the body as a sight of regeneration, decay, and natural wonder. Experiencing chronic pain in an immunocompromised body has a strong grip on her curiosity of the flesh which has manifested into a need to explore how one can access a deeper visceral understanding of our internal workings. Using recycled materials, a multitude of fabrics, plastics and the body itself, she has begun building a biomorphic, grotesque, and sterile universe for herself and her work to live inside of.
RASHEL VAN DER SCHAAF
Rashel van der Schaaf is a filmmaker and poet who uses sound, image, words, and projection to tell stories. Moving between documentary, fiction, dance film, video art, and video mapping, she explores different ways of creating stories and experiences. Her work is driven by a fascination with how people relate to the world around them, to one another, and to themselves.
With a deep-rooted love for nature, particularly water, rivers, and the sea, Rashel is interested in how these relationships are shaped by the habits and beliefs we develop over time. She questions what we have come to consider normal or self-evident, and what we might need to let go of to reconnect with ourselves, each other, and our environment.
Through film and poetry, she uses imagination and storytelling to create space for reflection and new perspectives. She experiments with non-human perspectives, giving a voice to living beings and entities that are often absent from societal conversations.
EMMA BARBER
Emma has always loved painting & drawing it brings me so much joy and she loves how mentally stimulating it is. One of her first memories is her grandma teaching her how to paint with watercolour and she has been hooked ever since till now and has been teaching herself how to use different mediums and techniques.
Emma doesn't like working with just one medium, she finds it too limiting and art for her is a form of freedom and expression. She loves using multiple mediums as it helps her learn/explore techniques as well as different outcomes which help develop her work as a storytelling (hand painted/drawing) collage artist, helping her create and achieve so much more depth bringing her work to life even more.
LINDA KUTZKI
People are at the heart of Linda's artistic work. Her approach them using collage and montage techniques. The process of creating a work is initially an act of destruction: She cuts up the existing order in order to reassemble it in a new and different way.Today, everything revolves around optimisation. What was once exclusively technical vocabulary has now been transferred to humans: in addition to a flawless appearance, performance must also be right and efficiency must be constantly increased. This creates uncertainty and discomfort. Linda breaks down these negative feelings by using a scalpel to dissect images into individual parts and assemble absurd creatures whose physicality is unreal. she works exclusively in analogue. For me, exaggeration in cutting and assembling, gluing and putting things together means liberation from her own idea of having to be perfect.
CALL SÖDERHOLM
Calla Söderholm (She/Her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work lives in a tactile realm. She plays with interactive senses in order to envelop the bodies of viewers through textile sculpture, wearable works, installation and performance. Raised in Toronto, Söderholm grew up with a background in ballet where she developed an affinity for sewing pink fabrics together. In her current practice she uses this urge to create atmospheres that investigate the body as a sight of regeneration, decay, and natural wonder. Experiencing chronic pain in an immunocompromised body has a strong grip on her curiosity of the flesh which has manifested into a need to explore how one can access a deeper visceral understanding of our internal workings. Using recycled materials, a multitude of fabrics, plastics and the body itself, she has begun building a biomorphic, grotesque, and sterile universe for herself and her work to live inside of.
CALL SÖDERHOLM
Calla Söderholm (She/Her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work lives in a tactile realm. She plays with interactive senses in order to envelop the bodies of viewers through textile sculpture, wearable works, installation and performance. Raised in Toronto, Söderholm grew up with a background in ballet where she developed an affinity for sewing pink fabrics together. In her current practice she uses this urge to create atmospheres that investigate the body as a sight of regeneration, decay, and natural wonder. Experiencing chronic pain in an immunocompromised body has a strong grip on her curiosity of the flesh which has manifested into a need to explore how one can access a deeper visceral understanding of our internal workings. Using recycled materials, a multitude of fabrics, plastics and the body itself, she has begun building a biomorphic, grotesque, and sterile universe for herself and her work to live inside of.