Noor Boiten and Floor Snels
Short Biography

Noor Boiten (1999, Utrecht, they/them) is a visual artist working primarily with moving-image installations across sculpture, video, text, 3D animation, and photography. In their work, they explore how digital culture shapes contemporary life, centering their practice on the relationship between people and images. Their work discusses identity, gender, consumer society, and authorship. Drawing on the (im)materiality of online/offline spaces and their networks of people, objects, and ideas, their cross-media approach keeps evolving with personal growth and social change.
About you
With a background in photography and film, Noor creates large scale installations that are mainly lens-based, like their last major work titled The future is under construction, which was exhibited at Museum Hilversum and Noorderlicht Photography Festival. This project delves into the possibility of creation queer utopias in digital spaces, questioning what ‘utopias’ really are and how other communities have tried creating them on the internet.
Boiten got their BA from St. Joost School of Art & Design (Breda) in 2023 and lives and works in Rotterdam.
Their work has previously been show at museums and festivals in the Netherlands, including BredaPhoto, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam and Noorderlicht, and at Utopias Lahti in Finland.
Your plan during the residency
During the *** in Residence in Japan Noor will start an archive using photography and film, collecting images that interact with the materials they use in their sculptural practice, including corrugated plates, wood and steel.
They’re also interested in the folklore legends of the Yokai, and how they can be read to illustrate and understand contemporary notions of queerness, gender fluidity, periods of transition and liminality.
Short Biography

Floor Snels (1997, ‘s-Hertogenbosch / based in Rotterdam)
With a background in philosophy, Floor Snels’ artistic practice focusses on ethics, exploring different perspectives on justice and expanding our moral circle. These ethical questions invoke a strong sense of morality in her writing and work, but throughout her practice Snels continuously questions new and changing renditions of ‘truth’ and epistemologies.
A hopeful pursuit of ‘the good’ is ever-present in her projects. Each project is an attempted step towards an ideal world. This takes shape through an essayistic working method in which she follows a process-based approach, playfully allowing space for subjective insights. Her work functions as a tool to initiate conversations and connect different interpretations. The form of her work is fluid, adapting to the context it is created in or those it is created with, and is often anrrative in nature. It can take on sculptural forms, supported by interventions and interactive elements, frequently situated in public spaces. In presentation settings, Snels often works with video, archives, workshops, and (lecture) performances.
Education:
BA, St. Joost School of Art & Design - Art & Research
MA, Tilburg University - Philosophy of Contemporary Challenges
About you
※This field is totally up to you - this page will be public and be translated into Japanese. Feel free to introduce yourself freely here.
Your plan during the residency
※ What you’d like to do in Kyoto and what you’d expect? Write whatever that comes to your mind.