How to become a terrorist | Portfolio

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Wendy Nouse (b. 1990, Maastricht, Netherlands) is a multidisciplinary artist working across conceptual research, performance, installation, and abstract painting. Her practice operates at the intersection of social, philosophical, and spiritual inquiry. Operating from her studio in France, her canvases map internal geographies, spiritual transit, and raw psychological research through an intuitive exploration of human connection and emotional alchemy. Working fluidly with oil, charcoal, plaster, and rich pigment, her tactile compositions capture personal transformation, emotional weight, and sacred presence.

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Shifting her research to broader sociopolitical frameworks, the collection How to Become a Terrorist addresses the influence of constant, invisible surveillance and the resulting self-regulation of behavior. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the Panopticon, the collection illustrates how societal power structures utilize surveillance to shape discourse and demand conformity, a theme further developed in her essay, When Art Becomes Political, Can It Still Be Art? Invoking Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s social contract to question the fairness of global movement, citizenship, and spatial boundaries, works like Mass Migration, Request for Asylum, and AirBnB Castles reflect on the political agreements and bureaucratic sensitivities surrounding displacement and security. Following the Brussels attacks on March 22, 2016, the artwork 22.03.16 marked a turn toward immediate reality and the destructive potential of dogmatic faith. Works such as This Page Is Intentionally Blank, Walls of Revolutions, and the performance video Nous Demandons at the European Parliament give voice to suppressed whispers, confronting the boundaries of institutional political activism.