https://hildeonis.com hilde onis Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:48:08 +0000 https://hildeonis.com en https://hildeonis.com/index Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:03:57 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/index https://hildeonis.com/Shape-sorter Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:07:06 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Shape-sorter <img width="6392" height="4261" width_o="6392" height_o="4261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2352aa9d7d3da679884b8060d47762fd791246b0cae3c7f5e201066021e296c/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_129.jpg" data-mid="234239918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2352aa9d7d3da679884b8060d47762fd791246b0cae3c7f5e201066021e296c/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_129.jpg" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de78188ba7d051987bea925f771706c3d9a4592dda9f804fabfca8cd86783b5e/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_038.jpg" data-mid="234239919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de78188ba7d051987bea925f771706c3d9a4592dda9f804fabfca8cd86783b5e/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_038.jpg" /> Shape Sorter (’’,’,’,’,,’,’,’)&nbsp; Metal, blown glass&nbsp; 30 x 30 x 30 cm&nbsp; A body that handles an object simultaneously influences and transforms it. The same applies to reading and communication: the reader shapes a text through interpretation, and in turn, the text shapes the reader. A child learns to recognize shapes by holding, sorting, and fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily experience.The series ‘Shape Sorters’ reflects this sensibility. The abstract forms recall children's toys but also resemble punctuation marks — visual symbols of language structure. By choosing glassblowing as a technique, one of the most fundamental of bodily actions-- breath, is captured. This invisible, ephemeral force becomes visible in the fragile transparency of blown glass. The object is shaped by the body, ánd becomes a record of it. Just as a reader shapes a text through interpretation, and is in turn shaped by it. https://hildeonis.com/However-Small-the-contact Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:37:34 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/However-Small-the-contact <img width="8500" height="6336" width_o="8500" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18ca72103d3dad656c602d0b24ddfecc6a16053ac43d7396f36bfda3abd137ad/TML20250525_24322.jpg" data-mid="235676126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18ca72103d3dad656c602d0b24ddfecc6a16053ac43d7396f36bfda3abd137ad/TML20250525_24322.jpg" /> However Small The Contact&nbsp;Feiko Beckers and Hilde OnisMay 24th a- June 1st, KATE Art Space, 2025 A body that handles an object influences and transforms it. The same applies to communication; the reader shapes a text through interpretation, and in turn, the text shapes the reader. A child learns to recognize shapes by holding, sorting, and fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily experience. In the exhibition, you will encounter pillows under pressure, healed sandwiches, a support system to keep the roof from falling down, the breath of a glassblower caught in a metal mold, a crash barrier in the shape of a heart, musings about the proper use of wards and glass doorstoppers that will always be there to stop. However small the contact explores our intimacy with the objects we live with — and the point at which that intimacy begins to fracture. https://hildeonis.com/Textual-performance-Guardrail-Heart Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:26:15 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Textual-performance-Guardrail-Heart <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33255a9d9371c9b79da02347049b4abba38d4b8e562fbe2d6a7b4a20b6aa85f0/00047_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" data-mid="234240364" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33255a9d9371c9b79da02347049b4abba38d4b8e562fbe2d6a7b4a20b6aa85f0/00047_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4cd655a92d6a5a53c2397f6130c2c3f953d6f3df2e891f3a9e18ab48cf634c0/00043_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" data-mid="234240358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4cd655a92d6a5a53c2397f6130c2c3f953d6f3df2e891f3a9e18ab48cf634c0/00043_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdfc4c01829340b48b72baba1749167a805bc611ec381a6de8b5e5a46a3498f2/00051_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" data-mid="234240365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdfc4c01829340b48b72baba1749167a805bc611ec381a6de8b5e5a46a3498f2/00051_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" /><img width="3485" height="5228" width_o="3485" height_o="5228" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aca4a5deb40550714a1485a3fcbd3434f273d5854ebf942f6cff5281141952c/00045_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" data-mid="234240369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7aca4a5deb40550714a1485a3fcbd3434f273d5854ebf942f6cff5281141952c/00045_20250509_ReadingCharacters.jpg" /> Textual performance ‘Guardrail Heart’ at the opening of READING CHARACTERS exhibition at Billytown The Hague&nbsp; May 9, 2025Reading Characters is a project -consisting of both a publication and an exhibition- that examines language and reading, specifically focusing on typography. The project is co-organized by Eva van Bemmelen and Annabelle Binnerts and will take place at Billytown, The Hague. For Reading Characters, each participating artist has developed a new work for both the publication and the exhibition. They all departed from the central theme of typography: the form or the origin of language and letters and how people communicate with each other. From there, they all moved in different directions: from dancing interpunction to a magician’s hand, a mother tongue, a heart-shaped guardrail, and a book that has never been read. Collectively, this exhibition aims to achieve a playful interplay between word, context, and material, an examination of what a word or character can be, and by doing so, widening our understanding of narration and communication. Participating artists: Clara Amaral, Jelena Vanoverbeek, Annelies Kamen, Hilde Onis, Ode de Kort, Puck Kroon, Eva van Bemmelen and Annabelle Binnerts. For the publication, a special introduction is made by Maria Barnas. Book design: Eva van Bemmelen and many others https://hildeonis.com/Shape-Sorter-gasp Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:21:41 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Shape-Sorter-gasp <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/295104413425c83a13af7114c9d9be1ba0d72faf0d24b68a19c9b124938c4184/TML20250525_24358.jpg" data-mid="234240308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/295104413425c83a13af7114c9d9be1ba0d72faf0d24b68a19c9b124938c4184/TML20250525_24358.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2dc21d07594d855f5c612ff8ee603510a606e4fa26d9ed0a7204cdbce21786d/TML20250525_24359.jpg" data-mid="234240310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2dc21d07594d855f5c612ff8ee603510a606e4fa26d9ed0a7204cdbce21786d/TML20250525_24359.jpg" /> Shape Sorter (gasp) Metal, blown glass 30 x 30 x 30 cm A body that handles an object simultaneously influences and transforms it. The same applies to reading and communication: the reader shapes a text through interpretation, and in turn, the text shapes the reader. A child learns to recognize shapes by holding, sorting, and fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily experience.The series ‘Shape Sorters’ reflects this sensibility. The abstract forms recall children's toys but also resemble punctuation marks — visual symbols of language structure. By choosing glassblowing as a technique, one of the most fundamental of bodily actions-- breath, is captured. This invisible, ephemeral force becomes visible in the fragile transparency of blown glass. The object is shaped by the body, ánd becomes a record of it. Just as a reader shapes a text through interpretation, and is in turn shaped by it. https://hildeonis.com/The-Anarchive Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:48:08 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/The-Anarchive <img width="1280" height="904" width_o="1280" height_o="904" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/559e89f40ae74801f8204a800d5244762c9678688bf5d6e7d00258de1d286df6/anarchief1.jpeg" data-mid="235676715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/559e89f40ae74801f8204a800d5244762c9678688bf5d6e7d00258de1d286df6/anarchief1.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="911" width_o="1280" height_o="911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdc1ceb8763873f54663e6eca4bc193be9c8419affd4e85365745a886ca441dc/anarchief2.jpeg" data-mid="235676716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdc1ceb8763873f54663e6eca4bc193be9c8419affd4e85365745a886ca441dc/anarchief2.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="752" width_o="1280" height_o="752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63c62e3f3c79bce0141d5943603e7e73c6e1f15085456b8285f5cb10af8e9154/anarchief3.jpg" data-mid="235676717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63c62e3f3c79bce0141d5943603e7e73c6e1f15085456b8285f5cb10af8e9154/anarchief3.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="861" width_o="1280" height_o="861" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ef362f6ee526982b9c07862659e89a33711f3b3f1b83c7b93f449e3979015a2/anarchief4.jpg" data-mid="235676718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ef362f6ee526982b9c07862659e89a33711f3b3f1b83c7b93f449e3979015a2/anarchief4.jpg" /> Sketch Proposal Spatial Design ‘The Anarchive’ for Roodkapje Rotterdam (2025)Me and Jasmijn Muskens were selected as a duo&nbsp; to further develop a spatial design for Roodkapje’s new Rotterdam venue and their project The Anarchive.An archive decides what’s valuable enough to save, and how. It shapes how we remember, how we access memory, and who gets left out. It claims neutrality, but is deeply colonial and patriarchal. It leaves silences. To anarchive is to break from that. Roodkapje’s anarchive is subjective, polyvocal, and unevenly shaped.Our design explores the tension between three terms with the same Greek root: AnARCHy, ARCHeology, ARCHive. Where archives and archaeology preserve and legitimize, anarchy disrupts and resists. The Anarchive holds that conflict—unstable, fluid, always open to reinterpretation.We approached it as an active, material process. Like excavation, we unearth and reshape fragments to tell partial stories.We worked with metal, a material that lives in a constant in between state: flexible but rigid, durable yet always changing. It rusts, melts, reforms. Alongside wood and stone, we used broken, cast, repurposed scraps from industries. Visible break lines run through forms, graphic and structural cues to fragmentation. Platforms, like a reconfigurable reading table, invite gathering and reflection. There’s space for silence, too, for what’s missing or erased.Everything is supposed to be mobile, adaptable, ready to be rearranged. Wheels, ridges, magnets, modules; tools to keep the anarchive unfixed. https://hildeonis.com/Evacuation-Cord Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:44:24 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Evacuation-Cord <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82fdf509c8c10e48796f4a496a66819cd7deccb2cfbd21f4b86ae90752998c66/TML20250525_24340.jpg" data-mid="235676616" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82fdf509c8c10e48796f4a496a66819cd7deccb2cfbd21f4b86ae90752998c66/TML20250525_24340.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63f8634ce00430de07941bd6f807470ad3d7e0be2bca0260ffaa9c98b038132e/TML20250525_24355.jpg" data-mid="235676617" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63f8634ce00430de07941bd6f807470ad3d7e0be2bca0260ffaa9c98b038132e/TML20250525_24355.jpg" /> Evacuation cord (2025)&nbsp; Casted Aluminum&nbsp; Various dimensions&nbsp; https://hildeonis.com/Guardrail-Heart Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:38:30 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Guardrail-Heart <img width="6130" height="4087" width_o="6130" height_o="4087" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bee69af6ad9ceaa4d54c72348cc4c03dd20bda0056742213b0c29529491d8a4/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_048.jpg" data-mid="234240451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bee69af6ad9ceaa4d54c72348cc4c03dd20bda0056742213b0c29529491d8a4/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_048.jpg" /> Guardrail heart Found sculpture&nbsp; Galvanized steel 80 x 200 x 120 cm&nbsp; https://hildeonis.com/Shape-sorter-heave Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:32:51 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Shape-sorter-heave <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e6abed1030c4ceae1f0eea5a7ea4d8a1b16025885ea84f49bdfe06827cb57a8/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_040.jpg" data-mid="234240403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e6abed1030c4ceae1f0eea5a7ea4d8a1b16025885ea84f49bdfe06827cb57a8/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_040.jpg" /><img width="6498" height="4332" width_o="6498" height_o="4332" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc607c1d2bb9e711e8a38b02b9a9624cd4f13f693bd5b901e8ca68e77ac0a6ee/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_130.jpg" data-mid="234240408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc607c1d2bb9e711e8a38b02b9a9624cd4f13f693bd5b901e8ca68e77ac0a6ee/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_130.jpg" /> Shape Sorter (heave) Metal, blown glass 30 x 30 x 30 cm A body that handles an object simultaneously influences and transforms it. The same applies to reading and communication: the reader shapes a text through interpretation, and in turn, the text shapes the reader. A child learns to recognize shapes by holding, sorting, and fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily experience.The series ‘Shape Sorters’ reflects this sensibility. The abstract forms recall children's toys but also resemble punctuation marks — visual symbols of language structure. By choosing glassblowing as a technique, one of the most fundamental of bodily actions-- breath, is captured. This invisible, ephemeral force becomes visible in the fragile transparency of blown glass. The object is shaped by the body, ánd becomes a record of it. Just as a reader shapes a text through interpretation, and is in turn shaped by it. https://hildeonis.com/Shape-Sorters-pant Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:43:49 +0000 hilde onis https://hildeonis.com/Shape-Sorters-pant <img width="4121" height="6181" width_o="4121" height_o="6181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f0173a0946ffec26edfaff193a76fa292f016cdb2fea83182c20cbc5822642c/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_131.jpg" data-mid="234240468" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f0173a0946ffec26edfaff193a76fa292f016cdb2fea83182c20cbc5822642c/Documentation_Reading-Characters_Billytown-2025_photos-Bart-Lunenburg_131.jpg" /> Shape Sorters (pant + ‘’()/;) Bronze, blown glass 30 x 30 x 30 cm each&nbsp;A body that handles an object simultaneously influences and transforms it. The same applies to reading and communication: the reader shapes a text through interpretation, and in turn, the text shapes the reader. A child learns to recognize shapes by holding, sorting, and fitting them into openings. People first explore language through physical acts, by forming sounds with their mouths. Reading and understanding are not purely intellectual processes, but are rooted in touch and bodily experience.The series ‘Shape Sorters’ reflects this sensibility. The abstract forms recall children's toys but also resemble punctuation marks — visual symbols of language structure. By choosing glassblowing as a technique, one of the most fundamental of bodily actions-- breath, is captured. This invisible, ephemeral force becomes visible in the fragile transparency of blown glass. The object is shaped by the body, ánd becomes a record of it. Just as a reader shapes a text through interpretation, and is in turn shaped by it.