Building upon the narrative foundations laid in Chapter 01, Retori’s Chapter 02 delves into an exploration of identity, evolution and change, shaped in dialogue with Miko Veldkamp - an artist of Dutch and Indonesian descent who was born and raised in Surinameand has leveraged his art to unlock his true sense of self and belonging.
Identities are shifting, plural, multifaceted, woven in motion. We are prisms wearing contradictions like second skins, carrying memory and possibility in the same breath. At Retori, we believe that the beauty of our journey of life is learning to move through multiplicity with grace. Some fragments reach back. Others stretch forward. All belong.
In its creative dialogue with Veldkamp, Retori has harnessed the artist’s multifaceted worlds to reflect the complexity and beauty of the human experience, playing with fluidity, memory, and belonging for its Chapter 02 collection echoing the artist’s emotional layering of anchoring and displacement.