Slaap Lekker

A VR experience about grief, loss, and dreams. Built around real interviews with people about their personal experiences of loss, the piece translates these recordings into a series of dreamlike islands floating in an ocean-like virtual world. Participants are tucked into bed, handed a stuffed toy, and use it to row themselves through the environment, drifting between islands and choosing which stories to sit with.

Grief is something most of us rarely talk about openly. Slaap Lekker creates a space to do exactly that, using the distance of a dream and someone else's words to make the conversation a little easier to enter.

Built in Unity for Meta Quest 2 and 3. Premiered at BAT Studiotheater Berlin and selected as an installation at Ars Electronica 2024.