Michelle van Dijk

Elemental Rebirth

Elemental Rebirth traces blood as both origin and continuity, a current that binds all life across generations. At once wound and remedy, mortality and renewal, blood is evoked here as a permanent ink, inscribing every body with the memory of creation.


This project positions the river as a passage back to the womb—a space where life begins —to recast ancestral wounds and inherited suffering as vessels of remembrance, opening a path toward healing and rebirth.

A Language of Clouds is a visual meditation on how the human body carries its own weather, heat, dust, storms, and light, shaped not only by place, but by memory and experience.

The project presents Nigerian women not as fixed portraits but as shifting skies. Each image becomes a forecast, reflecting internal seasons that move beneath the surface. Through double exposures and textured overlays, skin merges with the environment: dust storms gather at the collarbone, light ripples across a cheek, rain patterns trace themselves like veins. These works are not staged illusions but layered truths—moments of weather caught before they change again, as inevitable and uncontainable as drifting clouds.

Artworks

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ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

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4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

@Load Gallery 2023-2025

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

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OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 8 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

@Load Gallery 2023-2025