Sketching recognisable situations, building it up just to break your expectations, Iduna Paalman captivatingly plays with strange connections and surprising twists in her works. She possesses a creative, clever command of language, mixing different styles and combining forms to create an intimate space for exploring both linguistic and social boundaries. In her poetry collection Bewijs van bewaring (2022), Iduna unveils the stories of people who have long been overlooked, using archive materials to compassionately make personal poetry of lives that have been hidden.