Max Emma Hellinckx – Graduation 2025

Max Emma Hellinckx
caring (for) bodies

fine arts

Mentoren:
Shila Anaraki

Caring (for) bodies is a personal investigation into what it means to be a nurse. Into what it means to be a patient. What are the roles of the care recipient and the care provider, and can I take on all of these roles? Where does my desire to be a nurse come from, and why have I not succeeded in this?

Based on three core principles (RECLAIMING MY BODY, RECLAIMING MY HOME, RECLAIMING MY CARE), I use art and performance to explore how my body relates to the current healthcare system. Which roles do I embody and what do they mean?”

People look at me strangely when I tell them that the hospital feels like home. The hospital is my mother; it is her stories and her love. The smells and sounds are a time capsule to my childhood. The texture of the hand sanitizer. Sometimes with a crust on the spout of the bottle, causing the gel to fly everywhere when you press the pump. The shuffling of the nurses moving through the hallway, not in too much of a hurry, to the room where a light is on above the door…”