Geertje Brandenburg
artistic research - autobiographical - writing - installation - collage
Geertje Brandenburg, 1998, is a Dutch artist who works with photography, collage,
installation and text.
With installations built up from her extensive visual archive, Geertje questions the versatility of identity. As someone named after several people, Geertje interweaves herself with others, presenting a version of the truth that oscillates between myth and a half-remembered moment.
Geertje's work is rooted in collage and the archive, photos taken from their original
context are combined with text written by the artist himself. Through
appropriating materials from the archive and combining them with personal stories
Geertje creates a world in which she raises both her grandmother and an unknown woman
is a photo. Her sister's dreams become her dreams.
This fluid approach to the autobiographical makes Geertje's installations feel like a lost dream that you are trying to remember.