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“[…] Van Dalen has meticulously pinpointed and photographed hundreds of screen moments where the captions relate to birds chirping, singing or the like. A gesture, that is seemingly automatic, transforms into a true meditation on media consumption and the relayed underlying message. Aiming to extract life from stillness, she seeks to imbue hers, and the viewers gaze with the hidden tenderness that is dormant within the coldness of the digital world; and provide a certain sense of hope to the numbing monotony of passivity. […] ”

Alfredo Travieso
October 2025

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