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Marijke de Pous

artistiek onderzoek - cross-over - lichaam - tekenen - ecologie

Like a dancer expressing emotion through movement or a sculptor capturing presence with one pose perpetually still, I like to use the body as a tool for direct expression. Amidst mountains, fields and in my studio I dance with landscape and materials to explore our emotional and physical relationship to the earth and to each other.

Central to my way of working is an iterative use of drawing, performative gesture, (digital) collage and photographic registration. The encounters between body and other are purposefully multi-layered and often hold ambiguities or contradictions. Are we witnessing inner strength or turmoil? Lightness or a burden? Silence or shout? Rather than resolving these paradoxes, I am intrigued by their juxtaposition, stretching the space of possibility and meaning.