Tosca Schift is a Dutch visual artist whose practice spans video, film, performance and expended cinema. She creates experiences that explore the visceral body, multidimensionality of spaces, time and ancestry - addressing theme’s of identity, heritage and spirituality. Through a method of spiritual searching, Schift illuminates and unfolds the complexities of her colonial family history, while in parallel, reflecting on its broader sociopolitical manifestations.
SCHIMMEN
- In the Wake of Spirits -
The continuity of life and death,
of memory and becoming.
of memory and becoming.
Schimmen is a research into the colonial family history between the Netherlands and Indonesia, in which the researcher herself is pulled into a transformative journey - to a point of no return.