Identity in interaction with the outside world.
In this duo presentation Art Gallery O-68 presents 2 artists who differ greatly in terms of artistic content principles and final visual language, but have both developed a distinct visual language that is characterised by their own and distinct use of materials, often created through a combination of various 2D and 3D techniques. During Art Rotterdam, both artists will use the stand for works on the wall as well as sculptures and installation elements in the space.
Simone Albers is fascinated by the universe as a whole and everything it encompasses, from its origins to its evolution. With the help of philosophical and scientific insights, she reflects on (human relationships to) everything that lives and is. She often uses scientific images and thus refers both to structures and phenomena invisible to the naked eye and to humans as an observing species. In her latest series she delves into the microcosm and discusses ideas surrounding the earth, life cycles, biodiversity, pre-Christian symbols and circularity.
Maaike Kramer creates works that arise from mental processes and often build a bridge with the built environment and the metaphors contained within it. All parts of the works are made by hand and arise from volatile drawings. The result is a private inner world, a mental space, which is brought out in introspective but monumental works. Part of the train of thought can be found in the records and notes that remained during the creative process. The works play with the idea that even the most firmly stated truth is a construction, and therefore not absolute or unchangeable.
In our booth is a video presentation by Rozemarijn Westerink: Rêves en Ligne, which was created as a contemporary reflection on Ossip Zadkine’s statue The Destroyed City, installed in the heart of Rotterdam 70 years ago. Rozemarijn won the ‘Open Call Zadkine’, initiated by Musée Zadkine in Paris and Atelier Néerlandais, cultural department of the Dutch Ambassy in France. In this work she handles a complexity of themes such as the suffering of war, rebuilding life after destruction and reflecting on the human (female) body and the work by Ossip Zadkine. As a topical view in the work on the importance of nature, Westerink focusses on private gardening and in particular on the vegetation of the former garden of Zadkine at the Rue’d’Assas.