Marije de Wit
sculpture - photography
My practice revolves around my contemplative attitude towards sculpture and
image. Brought together in installations, my works constantly challenge their own, and
each other's status as autonomous, functional and decorative. The questioning of these
traditional understandings represents my desire to not only look at these fundamentals of
sculpture and images less statically, but also question what seems self-evident in our
surrounding world: I think the ability to keep looking anew at how we come to define and
value things there is of crucial importance.
Now that the quantifiable and objective have started leading in art as well as in daily life,
my work has also become a way to reclaim space for subjectivity and ambiguity, and for
things to be able to exist and be valid before they meet their explanation.
