How can stories from the past influence our present? And how can we 'remember' without being 'remembered' about a group of people? These questions form the basis of Dybbuk, an experimental project by Jason Hendrik Hansma whose title refers to the Hebrew word for clinging or splitting.

In Yiddish folklore, a Dybbuk is a human spirit that wanders restlessly until it finds refuge in the body of a living person. Through material experiments with screen printing and offset printing, Hansma aims to bridge the gap between digital and analogue printing techniques, taking images of ghosts from Jewish and Yiddish folklore as his subject. These images eventually come together in an installation of polished mirrors in which the viewer and the different spaces merge.

There will also be an artist's book of the offset experiments and a database of images related to the Dybbuk. Hansma will screen-print these images with silver ink on large metal panels, so that Dybbuk's traces only become visible with certain light. According to the advisory committee, the artist envisions an experimental and innovative printing technique that leaves room for unpredictability and magical angles.