Marie Louise Elshout
figurative - nature
“This is work that is becoming increasingly time consuming. Marie Louise Elshout has been working for years on a consistent oeuvre of drawings and paintings in which delicate, fragile figures appear. When daily reality offers no way out, Elshout opens the door for us to a new, unknown space. To change into a new or different person. Marie Louise looks inward, at the emotional world and the mysterious places of the imaginative imagination. It is special that at a time when the superficiality of social media creates confusion between what is real and fake, Elshout's figures focus on their inner world, which may feels more real than that which is outside of them. Her work is an invitation to become silent and dare to descend into the depths of your feelings and thoughts. Her figures often demonstrate this. They retreat behind their long hair, rarely looking at you. Hurricane – as many drawings have been called – is it churning behind the closed eyes?”
Mariette Dölle, dir. New Church Adam.