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The painters in me

Series  inspired by a mood board of works by (mostly female) artists I admire. All is connected to all. Present, past, future. What she made, what you will make, what I make. We are treading paths where we have been before and never been before at the same time.

In these photographs, I look for the depth, composition and layering I find in the painters I admire.









     










      









   










   

















The unseen imagines itself

In this project (2022), I try to grab the imagination by the throat. Faced with a time in which we waverlingly plod on, I feel the need to get a glimpse of a future we can cling to. I grab a lot and frequently miss.








then what makes me needed
how thin are the layers behind which
the unseen imagines itself

give me
an imprint of this life
my future fossil

i am precisely
at the edge





















                                                                               





for all this to be too good to be true

















Some views of the installation in Pictura Groningen (November/ December 2022)










Forever Chords

That endless hope
Of all that lies ahead

 

























And let’s hope it never ends
You hope it never ends
I hope it never ends



Forever Chords came into being during the corona pandemic. To keep going, I agreed with visual artist Peter Boersma to show each other something new every Friday. It could be an idea, a concept, a try-out or a completely new work. Gradually a whole new series emerged, which had much in common with Peter's collages. We showed the work in a successful duo exhibition at Galerie Noord in Groningen (May 2020).
Into another dimension

Together with Rabbit, I created The Flux. An infinite, colourful parallel universe, without horizon and without a clear structure. After that I worked on The Truth. I tried to prove that the truth is pink and infinite. Lines were no longer only reserved for my installations. Now (2020) we are moving into another dimension.

We still explore what it means to be part of the greater whole and imagine being able to go straight through time, place and matter. On these mental journeys we move from real life and create an alternative reality. From that abstract level we try to get a grip on the truth and envision a future that is softer, smoother and more peaceful than the present. Rabbit and I are sensing a perfect world.

In Into another dimension the search runs through planes and lines.





Installation design and view during Art Rotterdam Week 2020 (Hotel Hilton, February 2020):






Hashtag The Truth










#thetruth

True infinity is pink.
Pink truth is infinite.
Infinite truth is pink.
Pink infinity is true.

Yes, truth is pink and infinite.
No, there is proof.
There you go.




In 2018 I created The Truth, an abstract pink image. Themes in my work are playing with fact and fiction and the desire to go through time and matter to investigate what can be found out there. The Truth is an expression of that wish. I discovered that the truth is a pink infinity and captured it. From what perspectives this pink infinity can be approached was the question of the research I conducted in 2019. I was trying to dissect the truth and by doing so to prove it.




Mariëlle Gebben            mail@mrll.nl           +31641237338