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Joost Koster (1996) works with video, audio, drawing and performance, applying the principles of collage across all of his projects. He moves found and self-made images, sounds and objects from their original contexts and brings them together in new settings, creating meanings that were previously latent, hidden, or absent.
In the installation Captured, Clustered (2025–ongoing), cables, drawings on glass and video screens form a network of lines and planes across the wall. The screens display fragments from Koster’s personal archive: everyday moments such as waiting at a bus stop. The drawings refer to memories and objects from his immediate surroundings. The image layers sometimes overlap: a video behind glass, a screen partially obscuring a drawing. The ‘backside’ of the technology – including cables and editing effects – remains visible and forms an integral part of the work.
Koster investigates how different techniques record memories. His focus is not on what is seen, but on how something is captured. A camera registers a moment, yet the manner in which it does so depends on the device’s built-in preferences. A drawing records not only what is visible, but also an embodied experience. Koster views the body as an archive of stored memories and movements, an idea he plays with – for example by drawing a tree in the way he did as a child. Through this interplay of media and memory, Captured, Clustered invites reflection on the question: how does technology shape what we remember?
Written by Sarah van Binsbergen