Marjan Laaper
installatie - publieke ruimte
Marjan Laaper 1971, graduated from WDKA’s Fine Arts Department in 1994. She was educated at the Maryland College of Art, Baltimore, USA and the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, NL. She received grants to work in the USA, Iceland,Japan and China.
She specializes in large-scale video projections, installations and Public Art Commissions. Simple everyday phenomena are being presented within a poetic, sometimes philosophical framework. General human experiences, human thinking, nature, and the experience of everyday life are starting points in her work. Often there is a tension between contradictory subjects and symbols like beauty and danger, the immaterial and the transitory trust and alarm. The life cycles of humans and nature plays an important role in her video-work and installations. The work does not give clear answers, but shows recognizable elements that generate questions.
Her work was shown in Museums and Art Centers internationally.