Puck Verkade

In installations of drawings and films, Puck Verkade examines relationships between psychic, domestic, and ecological spaces, and how their interdependent functions reflect their shared disorders. Combining stop-motion animation, found footage, and selfdocumentation, Verkade’s films take the perspective of unusual protagonists — a fly, a plate of oysters, a pre-human ape — to subjectively reframe histories of social, biological, and ecological evolution. With playfully subversive humor, Verkade’s non-linear storytelling reveals power dynamics through disjointed images that continually recontextualize what comes before them and what follows. In reframing conventional narratives through the at times comical personal struggles of her characters, Verkade explores the effects that ingrained biases based on sex, gender, and race have on people and the planet.