vroeger was je anders :$ wjnmk

In the world of “vroeger was je anders :$ wjnmk”, memories, nostalgia, love, and trauma are uniting. Captured memories to visualize Angel-Rose’s eras of drowning. The abbreviation “wjnmk” stands for “never want to lose you” in Dutch, and it became popular on MSN, the former chat function of Microsoft. Even though her memories make Angel-Rose drown, she never wants to lose them again.

Angel-Rose Oedit Doebé (The Netherlands, 1995) is a Dutch-Surinamese visual artist from Amsterdam. Oedit Doebé is an alumnus of HKU BA Fine Arts and winner of the HKU Keep an Eye Photography Stipend and the HKU Prize Gemeente Utrecht for social relevance in 2021.

She describes herself as a visual artist who is rooted in the medium of photography but dissected the medium to a form installation.  She creates photos, mainly self-portraits, installations, ready-made sculptural work and works with archives.
Besides her visual art, angel-rose is invested in activism, social rights, feminism, writing, creative direction, and is involved with children in a creative manner.

The artist works from her own created perspective called ‘the angel-rose coloured glasses’. it’s a world where she expresses her bold opinion on marginalization within the white, western society. She does this by creating a mixture of pop culture, camp, and activism through her art.
It’s almost a satirical way of expressing her opinion. Society was not built for her, but the artist is claiming her space loudly through her artistry.