Of former presidents Formerly known as Lilith Love, she changed her artist name in Her work frequently explores themes such as identity, femininity, female archetypes, gender bending, freedom and equality. Her father worked as a clog maker and mailman. From a young age, she has been writing, drawing and cooking. She attended the Schoevers Academy in Nijmegen and worked as an executive secretary from till To illustrate her online blogs, she began creating self-portraits initially using a webcam , and later a simple compact camera.
By , her self-portraits had nearly replaced her written stories, she and she began using a single-lens reflex camera , tripod and remote control to document her life through photographs. Her self-portrait Forgive me, Father, for In the same year her work was also shown in the USA for the first time. In she started her project A house is not a home , in which the houses of complete strangers are the setting for her self-portraits.
That same year she also started the photo documentary Risja, a story by Lilith - This is bugging me , about Risja Steeghs a girl who lives in her village and who suffers from a severe form of Lyme disease. The 'Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg' in Roermond, The Netherlands, financially supported the travelling exhibition and the publication of a photo book with the same name.
The proceeds from the book sales go to TeekOnMe, a foundation that supports the research of Lyme disease. Partner Henk Temming. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Dutch multimedia artist. This article is an orphan , as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the Find link tool for suggestions.
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