Together with writer and co-author in The Europeans Arnold Van Bruggen, designer Jeroen Kummer of LMNOP, and advisor / editor Kim Knoppers, I’m currently working on the final stages of our new book Plastic Sea Perfect Storm. It’s a multi-layered project, featuring at first glance an eclectic mix of topics, which all come together to form a Perfect Storm—a collision of forces that culminates in dramatic human catastrophe. Identity, history, traditions, migration, exploitation, capitalism, pollution—they all find a place in the book. In March, we’ll officially announce the book and open pre-orders, in May we’ll launch it during a preview at Domo in Amsterdam, and from September the work will be officially on display at the Kunsthal Rotterdam.

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Image: Painting from 1880 by the Spanish artist Manuel Gómez-Moreno González. It marks the irrevocable end in 1492 of nearly eight centuries of Islamic rule in this region and the expulsion of Muslims to North Africa.