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AKWANAUTØYNA and TRAVELERS & MEDIATORS are ongoing investigations into a watery non-binary world.

Vibeke Jensen is a Norwegian born artist based in New York for two decades before relocating to Europe with studios in Berlin and on a remote island on the Norwegian west coast. Her particular interest in different points of view and positions of looking has funneled investigations into the practice of surveillance and control of public space, recognizing this as a central structural element of advanced urban cultures. Spyglass, mirrors, lenses, secretly recorded video and 'whatever it takes' are the ingredients she applies in constructing situations and sculptural interventions that provoke a rupture in daily life perception and facilitate the meeting of strangers. Vibeke Jensen's website

Santiago De Waele is a Belgian artist with an invaluable experience with planning and constructing art in public space as technical director and co-curator of the Brugge Triennale for contemporary art and architecture from 2014-21, and for three iterations of the Beaufort triennial sculpture project along the Belgian coast. In his early carrier he designed and realized the subtropical swimming pool at Preston Palace, Almelo, NL; and converted a never used nuclear power plant into a theme park in Kalkar in Germany. After decades of sourcing his creativity and 'outside the box' thinking into realizing well known artists' work, De Waele stepped into his full potential as a practicing artist together with Vibeke Jensen as DE JENZ in 2020.