Maud van den Beuken
analytical - artistic research - conceptual - crossover - digital technology - film - globalization - installation - land art - media - man - nature - environment - process - public space - sculpture - science & technology
Maud van den Beuken (1993, Venlo, NL) characterizes her artistic practice as an adventurer and fieldworker by an investigative attitude in which she measures, scans and maps the landscape on a 1:1 scale.
From an inexhaustible curiosity about man's position between the earth's surface and the sky, she investigates how we understand ourselves in-between those two spaces. By adopting a bird's eye perspective within cartography, man has become the architect of the earth. Van den Beuken explores this topic in often long-term research projects in collaboration with (natural) scientists and engineers. By following a river on foot, scanning its bottom with sonar technology or following the course of the sun, she seeks for physical understanding of our environment. Can we see ourselves in coexistence with our environment if we map the world 1:1 scale?