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Marijke van Warmerdam

CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery presented a film installation by Marijke van Warmerdam, who lives and works in Amsterdam.

Van Warmerdam produced a 16 mm film loop in whichn the Japanese tradition of bowing has been taken as a subject; young Japanese children appear from behind a very old big tree and bow to each other several times, then the next appear to start frog-leaping.

As a book for the CCA Artists’ Book Series, the artist worked on the diary in the form of accordion fold with a West and an Eastern side in which a wave from famous Hokusai print is used.

These works are examples of how she likes to react on places and people, more than to create an individual art work within four walls of a studio – in fact she doesn’t have her own studio.

“I prefer to make my works as loose sand. These are often the result of invitations for exhibitions, to which I react on the given situation in the first place. To me this is a much more natural way of working than making works in the studio, although of course in the end, the image counts most and for all, whatever cause my works have. The fact that my work gets another meaning in another context is something I like and want to keep open.”

Maijke van Warmerdam stayed at CCA Kitakyushu as Professor of Research Program during a month in November 1999.

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