(NL) Een liefdesverklaring aan alle heftrucks

I think I only truly matter in this world when I’m driving a forklift. Preferably at a festival full of creative types and tough guys on the Manitou. That’s when I feel like I really matter, when I’m behind the wheel and they watch me doing great. Yet, I deny myself the chance to drive by simply not doing it. Am I denying myself the opportunity for ultimate toughness?

The vehicle feels like a cartoon, a kind of superhero with clumsiness.
Just like Puck Dekker was once a little floor, she will now hide behind the large forks of her muse: the forklift. This time, it’s admitting her obsessive love to all forklifts.

Puck Dekker, also known as Duck Pekker, is a multi-talented artist who writes, builds, sews and performances.  Her creative process often stems from everyday scenes and events, which involves vulnerability, or a certain endearment. Through the lens of humor and by magnifying absurdities, she poetically highlights what often escapes our attention. Dekker/Pekker is committed to immortalizing these moments, refusing to let them fade away into obscurity. She gives small occurrences a grand stage, ensuring they are not forgotten.

Her keen observations find expression in her collection of poetry “Vannacht ben ik onder mijn kliklaminaat gaan liggen (en daar nooit meer onderuit gekomen)”. One of those poems functions as the groundwork for her performance and installation, which she showed at her graduation show at the HKU. She was part of a residence (Destillaat, Nijmegen), where she focussed on her newest and most beloved buy; her oldtimer motorcycle. She wanted to observe her happiness, sadness, and toughness and femininity by riding the motorcycle. And her search goes on, with her main question; Can I still be tough without talking about forklifts and my motorbike all the time?