So where is God?  (30 x 40 cm pastel/ print, 1997)

This archive is alongside the biography of Jimmy Groen, written in the autobiographical books  Gepleegd and Hoe word ik Tim?, published under the pseudonym Jasper Heijting and available in the libraries in Flanders and the Netherlands. 

• Sections 5 & 7:  The body as a battlefield of gender-based trauma.

• Section 12:  A project with photographs  on the  stigma by design and the  later victory 

For a more profound background read here

Content Warning

This archive contains raw and  heavy depictions of institutional violence and trauma, that some people may find disturbing.

archive #1      Institutional violence,youth/  foster care  1-45

archive #2     Institutional violence, foster care  46-98

archive #3     Police violence and article 3 ECHR [1986]  99-120 

 archive #4    Institutional violence, youth/ foster care 121-162

 archive #5    Trauma Art and the Body   163-185

 archive #6    Institutional violence, youth and foster care  186-232

 archive #7    Institutional violence in foster care: gender based violence  233-280

archive #8    Institutional betrayal and violence in foster care 281-325

archive #9    Trauma art about youth care and violence in foster care 326-377

archive #10  Trauma art about violence in foster care378-428

archive #11  Trauma art 1992-1997   (Portraits, cult?/  Residential) 429-486

archive #12  (Project) Photographs and artwork: "Stigma by Design: The Enduring Pulse of the State 487-538

archive #13  Trauma art on institutional violence 541- 604

Related pages (artwork on trauma & identity):

Tim draws back   Work from Tim  about peer - only/ oriented  attachment in a children's home 

Soft queer rebels      portraits about queer identity in childhood, from the identity restoration studio (2021-2023)

They are everywhere but nobody knows who they are about marginalized, erased and voiceless identities by Tim and Alex