Katrine Claassens

Katrine Brink Claassens was born in South Africa in 1985. She studied Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and after graduating lived between Quebec and France developing her artistic practice before moving back to South Africa in 2012. In 2015 she completed her Masters degree in Climate Change and Sustainable Development at UCT in 2015, where she engaged with subjects that inform the environmental concerns in her art. She works in the mediums of oil painting, video, poetry, and drawing, bearing witness to the unprecedented environmental changes of the Anthropocene. The main themes of her work grapple with climate change, urban ecology (particularly that of suburbs), solastalgia, edge species, and crass internet memes.

Visions of resilience: Eighteen artists say or show something in response to the word “resilience”

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Visions of resilience: Eighteen artists say or show something in response to the word “resilience”

By David Maddox Patrick Lydon Juan Carlos Arroyo Katrine Claassens, and 14 more

[roundtable_menu] [contributor]Juan Carlos Arroyo, Bogotá [excerpt]What survives in the act of resistance to a hospital closure is an ideal of human care, a concept of health and selfless humanitarianism that