PROSPECTS #2: ‘Mating Frogs’ (2022) by Trees Heil, as seen on Art Rotterdam 2024.

Trees Heil (1993, The Netherlands) makes photos, short videos and performances. The works show temporarily constructed situations in which spaces, people and their behaviors are given a new poetic context. By using materials such as plaster, jute, hair and paint, the people who are photographed are transformed into different shapes. Heil examines the fluidity of man and themes such as identity and intimacy are explored.

Heil received her bachelor’s degree from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, NL). In 2023 she received a Young Talent Working Grant from the Mondiaan Fund.