Oemoemenoe #9: Daniel(le) Vorthuys
Daniel(le) Vorthuys
Performance
22 November 2025
2 – 3 pm
Wolter Vos Kappers
Performance Daniel(le) Vorthuys
3 to 6pm (walk-in from 2:30pm)
Wolter Vos (Damplein 52, Middelburg)
No need to register beforehand
Curatorial concept: Jim van Geel
Projectleider: Nadine van den Bosch
On November 22, at 3pm Vleeshal will present the work of Daniel(le) Vorthuys in Zeeland as part of Oemoemenoe at hair salon Wolter Vos in Middelburg. For this occasion, Vorthuys is developing a performance centered around the fairytale Rapunzel — a story about good girls, wicked witches, wrong choices, desires, and what happens when you finally let your hair down. In Vorthuys’ version, Rapunzel is not just a fairytale figure, but a contemporary character who reveals how old ideas about chastity and beauty continue to shape us today - and how these persistent notions can be reimagined and transformed.
The performance is based on a script written by Vorthuys in a layered mix of Dutch, English, Latin, Gaelic, German, and Japanese. As Rapunzel, she engages in a dialogue with an animation that represents her own subconscious - a muscular, untamed creature that appears whenever it pleases. Through a complete transformation of herself - through clothing, hairstyle, and makeup - Vorthuys brings Rapunzel to life in a new context, using the fairytale as a framework to explore how stories change when they are retold, and how imagination can help us grasp who we are, and who we wish to be.
Events
22 November
Oemoemenoe #9: Daniel(le) Vorthuys
2 – 3 pm
Wolter Vos Kappers
Persons
Series
Oemoemenoe started in 2023 as part of the Local Nomadic Program. For Oemoemenoe, contemporary artists are invited to develop a project in collaboration with local associations and businesses in Zeeland - sports clubs, swimming pools, hotels, and restaurants. We bring visitors into contact with contemporary art in various special places in Zeeland and invite artists who give us possible directions on which way to go. They question, each in their own way, the accepted norm through their artistic practice.