FOLLY

Heleen Mineur received a grant for the development of new work. In FOLLY (working title), Heleen explores mental health through a crip-queer and fabulist lens, questioning how care, truth, and madness are represented across history and media. Blending experimental film with documentary strategies, the work challenges linear narrative and reframes erased histories. Supported by K.F. Hein Fonds and now Amarte, the project unfolds into a layered, sensory world through film and tangible media where proof and myth converge. Exhibition opens November 2025 in Utrecht Lokaal, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.

Heleen is a transdisciplinary artist. Following her studies, she has developed a range of artistic and research-based projects, which have led to teaching her own curriculum in art education. In her work, she explores the ways of narrating the (future) Now. Her works are an assemblage of contemporary content, where she knits fragments into a confabulated (visual) narrative. These are presented through text, image, and objects — leading to video works, installations, performance, and publications. She plays with criticality through speculation; playing with friction of reality and satire - often not sure whether it is in the future or the past. By doing so, she shows other ways to narrate the zeitgeist, with a crip-queer lense.