Lin de Mol is a multi media artist that works with sculptures, installations and photography, as well as with collages, that she often combined with short stories. She is eclectic by nature, yet sees all of her work as sculptural. Even her photography can be seen as registrations of etherial sculptures that can only exist in this way: As an after-image of an event that took place in a natural landscape, devoid of human presence. This natural world is a leading motive in all of her work and forms a continuous reference to an original, shared source of purity. Her art hovers between the tactile and the immaterial, and explores each chosen medium for its capacity for emotional expression. In her meditative sculptures and photos, we encounter nature charged with an invisible power just beyond the tangible.
Lin de Mol on her new solo show at Lang Art “The Pink Light”:
“In the North, the color pink is an anomaly. It only appears in fleeting moments, during a sunrise or sunset, or in a flower in spring. The only animal that also wears this color is the male bull finch that announces the coming of winter. I have centered my recent work around a thought of this color that behaves like a gift, but refuses to be owned. It comes and goes, leaving a only a memory and a vague sense of comfort.
Natural phenomena that occur where I live are an integral part of my work. It is a choice I have made in my life, to develop this intimate relationship to nature. I have come to see nature not just as a tree or a rock or a landscape, but more as a state, a state of harmony between the inner and the outer. To me, that is when something becomes nature. In my art, I aim for this state to occur. In me, while making, and in the viewer when encountering the works."
Lin de Mol was born and raised in Amsterdam and trained as a monumental sculptor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She studied film/video at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam that was followed in computer graphics studies in Dublin and film school in Rockport, Maine in the U.S.A. She has exhibited internationally since 1996 and her work is part of collections in The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Sweden.
Since 2014 she lives and works in Sweden, where she organises the yearly light festival Arvika Ljus! that takes place every fall in the town of Arvika in Värmland.