Mirjam Somers
drawing - video - nature
Mirjam Somers makes video works and drawings. Her video works are situated between moving painting and compressed cinema. In her work she is inspired by the complicated and contradictory relationship between humans and (other) animals. The complex moral universe that surrounds this relationship constantly creates new insights and conflicts. In her drawings and video work she questions and visualizes many of these conflicts. Different people, animals and intermediate beings inhabit disturbing worlds in her work in which they question, threaten or simply do not see each other. Somers studied at the HISK Flanders and AKVISt.Joost, 's-Hertogenbosch. In addition to her own autonomous work, she regularly collaborates with photographer Bas Czerwinski on film projects by fellow visual artists and on various artist portraits. Together they have also recently started programming art projects in their own kitchen under the name Kitchen Stories.