{"id":19811,"date":"2026-09-16T07:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/?post_type=drst_agenda&#038;p=19811"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:25:42","slug":"exboot-sea-swallow-me-dagmar-pouwelse","status":"publish","type":"drst_agenda","link":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/agenda\/exboot-sea-swallow-me-dagmar-pouwelse\/","title":{"rendered":"EXboot \/ Sea, swallow me &#8211; Dagmar Pouwelse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Sea, swallow me&#8217; is a fictional ruin of my home, swallowed by the sea. The work refers to Oud-Rilland, the submerged version of my native village, which was flooded during the St. Felix Flood of 1530.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of the installation stands a wall of large medieval-style bricks (<em>kloostermoppen<\/em>), constructed from papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 with a top layer of sand from Westkapelle\u2014my family\u2019s place of origin and where I spent my summers. The shape of the bricks is based on the historical 6:3:2 ratio (30x15x10 cm) common in the late Middle Ages. Embedded in the sand layer are various objects: small crab skeletons from the Oesterdam, a butterfly pendant from my childhood, shells, and rubble from a demolished house in Rotterdam. Also incorporated are items found while walking through the mudflats at the submerged site of Oud-Rilland, such as old bricks, ceramics, and glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first glance, the installation resembles an ancient, historical ruin. Upon closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that the work addresses the present day: water levels in the Netherlands are at record lows, flooding is on the rise, and hydraulic structures like the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier are suffering from deferred maintenance. The work poses the question of what would remain of a life if the waters were to rise again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-1600x2133.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dagmar-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sea, swallow me&#8217; is a fictional ruin of my home, swallowed by the sea. The work refers to Oud-Rilland, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":19810,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19811","drst_agenda","type-drst_agenda","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drst_agenda\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drst_agenda"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/drst_agenda"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artutrecht.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}