Charlotte van de Graaff is a video artist whose current work revolves around the theme of belonging relating to her diasporic background, family ties and the feminine. Exploring the estrangement and longing for the motherland prevalent within the Indo community, but even more so the experience of these notions within one’s intimate relationships whether that be to one’s self or familial ones. Through poetry, play and video she creates new landscapes, questioning the form of narration, where does new land begin and end and where do those ends connect?

These questions are characterized in her work through making the connection with the mother as a symbol, and the motherland as a longing. An exploration of the familiarity or estrangement one can have with the mother as a woman, as female. To what landscape does she, or the she belong?