This is not a sculpture, but a situation: an encounter between materials, layers of time, and the senses. The table ceases to be an everyday object and becomes an interface — a space of exchange between humans, nature, materials, and their energetic qualities.

A kind of ecosystem emerges, where amorphous forms settle, unfold, and follow their own logic, engaging in interaction. The work grows like an organism during its creation, exploring boundaries, tension, softness, and hardness.

Within the framework of the Symbiocene — an era defined by coexistence and interconnection — I investigate how communication unfolds energetically, both between humans and between humans and nature, and how materials can embody these exchanges.

The table becomes a site of conversation and creation, offering a temporary landscape for mutual influence and a symbiotic relationship through the use of diverse materials.

This is not a sculpture, but a situation: an encounter between materials, layers of time, and the senses. The table ceases to be an everyday object and becomes an interface — a space of exchange between humans, nature, materials, and their energetic qualities. A kind of ecosystem emerges, where amorphous forms settle, unfold, and follow their own logic, engaging in interaction. The work grows like an organism during its creation, exploring boundaries, tension, softness, and hardness. Within the framework of the Symbiocene — an era defined by coexistence and interconnection — I investigate how communication unfolds energetically, both between humans and between humans and nature, and how materials can embody these exchanges. The table becomes a site of conversation and creation, offering a temporary landscape for mutual influence and a symbiotic relationship through the use of diverse materials.

This is not a sculpture, but a situation: an encounter between materials, layers of time, and the senses. The table ceases to be an everyday object and becomes an interface — a space of exchange between humans, nature, materials, and their energetic qualities. A kind of ecosystem emerges, where amorphous forms settle, unfold, and follow their own logic, engaging in interaction. The work grows like an organism during its creation, exploring boundaries, tension, softness, and hardness. Within the framework of the Symbiocene — an era defined by coexistence and interconnection — I investigate how communication unfolds energetically, both between humans and between humans and nature, and how materials can embody these exchanges. The table becomes a site of conversation and creation, offering a temporary landscape for mutual influence and a symbiotic relationship through the use of diverse materials.

This installation unraveled after making, and deconstructing the installation: “Tangled up in innocence”. 2011

A Tangled Tale, 2019
Is an installation that is referring to the twist we find ourselves in sometimes, especially in the role as a woman. It’s about conflicted feelings, unsettled emotions, experiences; about the unique, and often ambivalent relation between emotion and intellect, body and mind, sensory perception and rational understanding The wheel needs to be spinning but an underlying feeling is in conflict with ‘the keeping up the appearance’ also the physical body plays an important role in this all.
Inevitable physical presence is one of the most recognizable aspects of the objects, installations, drawings and collages Petra makes. The objects invite touch with their primarily physical nature. They often seem sensual. The soft rose color is part of that sensuality. Even hanging on meat hooks is not frightening, macabre or monstrous; and while the titillating experience is not a direct result of the way in which the objects are assembled, the physical component remains in the tangible objects and installations.

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Installation made for the show '(r)evolution' in Botanical gardens in Amsterdam. The show was about Darwin.

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(Close-up )Installation made for the show '(r)evolution' in Botanical gardens in Amsterdam. The show was about Darwin.

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(Deatail) Installation made for the show '(r)evolution' in Botanical gardens in Amsterdam. The show was about Darwin.

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Installation made for the show '(r)evolution' in Botanical gardens in Amsterdam. The show was about Darwin.

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A balancing act is about identifying Europe.
I made this piece for the Twente Biennale 2013

A balancing act is about identifying Europe.
I made this piece for the Twente Biennale 2013

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Installation made for the show: cultivate. MASS MoCA, curated by Denise Markonish.
location: Berkshire botanical gardens

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Installation made for the show: cultivate. MASS MoCA, curated by Denise Markonish.
location: Berkshire botanical gardens

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Installation, about the bodily functions

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(close up )Installation, about the bodily functions

Installation made in collaboration with scientists of nano lab, Enschede.

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Installation made in collaboration with scientists of nano lab, Enschede.

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Installation made in collaboration with scientists of nano lab, Enschede.

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Installation made at Sculpture Space, N.Y.

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Installation made at Sculpture Space, N.Y.

Nylon stocking stretched in a room
Location: Sculpture Space N.Y.

Site specific installation, nylon stockings sewed together and stretched in a room
Location: Sculpture Space N.Y.

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Nylon stocking stretched in a room

Detail,
Nylon stocking stretched in a room

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The Phoenix area is one of the fastest growing regions in the United States - shopping malls, golf courses, green lawns, an exploding population and an ecological time bomb. Desertificaiton is the process of creating a desert from human involvement. reDesertification brings to questions whether humans should allow the waterless region to return to a desert. Collaboration with Karrie Hoevy, USA. Location: Arizona dessert, Frank Lloyd Wright Institute

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The Phoenix area is one of the fastest growing regions in the United States - shopping malls, golf courses, green lawns, an exploding population and an ecological time bomb. Desertificaiton is the process of creating a desert from human involvement. reDesertification brings to questions whether humans should allow the waterless region to return to a desert. Collaboration with Karrie Hoevy, USA. Location: Arizona dessert, Frank Lloyd Wright Institute

Kinetic object, for video: click on the left bar on: 'links'

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installation in the old palm oil factory in Berlin. You can't really look inside the greehouses cause you will be blinded by the light. An installation about cultivation.

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Portable oxygen (just in case of...)
exhibition: Transformator: Generating site effects

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Sculpture about the bodily functions. made with different materials, like funnels, hoses and plastics.

Sculpture about the bodily functions. made with different materials, like funnels, hoses and plastics.

Sculpture about the bodily functions. made with different materials, like funnels, hoses and plastics.

A sculpture inspred on the construction that has been going on in the city of Enschede. Roombeek. the building materials are found at the construction place.

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