( ) in the Mountain is an artist collective consisting of a group of friends who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague in 2022. While facing the reality of our precarious situations as international emerging artists, we were brought up out of a need for a space that allowed growth. Our place welcomes what is often omitted, hidden, or swiped away, giving ourselves and others a space for the quiet, for all that often does not make its way to the forefront, as well as an attempt to bring our art practices closer to our daily lives. We were established in August 2022, and are currently based at De Besturing, an artist studio complex in the Hague, the Netherlands.

         

 
Starting from sensing an undefined-ness, my practice goes through sadness and pain towards what is dismissed, because it cannot fit into the framework of words. At the same time, words are an integral part of my practice, because I find beauty in the desperate action of twisting words to tell the untellable. It is an aspect of utterance that harbors the will to reach (out to) an ‘other’ and simultaneously its futility.