Vera Kersting (b. 1997, Rotterdam). Although Vera’s artistic practice is rooted in oil painting, she often combines this medium with video, collage, text and installation. Her research-driven works evoke dreamlike worldmakings in which ghosts from the past and future shimmer. She paints images that address relational dynamics between personal experiences and collective representations, humans and non-humans, and the absurdity of society. Family memories have led her to broader questions surrounding colonial inheritance. Drawing on historical documents and archives, she investigates (neo)colonial propaganda and the visual language of solidarity movements, as well as the contexts in which these images circulate and how history is shaped, distorted, or forgotten. Vera completed her MA and BA at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium.