Jenkin van Zyl: Lost Property

London-based artist and filmmaker Jenkin van Zyl is known for his surreal, cinematic installations that challenge ideas of identity, community, and transformation.

For ARoS, van Zyl has created a major new work set within an immersive environment developed in close collaboration with his close-knit community of LGBTQIA+ identifying performers, dancers and musicians. The installation unfolds in the fictional Bureau of “Lost Property”, a space where lost memories are retrieved and reimagined over a 24-hour narrative. Through evocative choreography, ritualistic movement, and an atmospheric soundscape, the work explores the fluidity of time, memory, and belonging.

With its looping structure and playful engagement with the body, “Lost Property”, curated by Ellen Drude Skeel Langvold, challenges conventional ideas of beginnings and endings, proposing instead that loss and recovery open up spaces for creativity, connection, and renewal.