Ghislain Pascal & Tamara Beckwith Veroni of The Little Black Gallery & Valérie-Anne Giscard d’Estaing of Galerie XII present the exhibition Margaret Lansink / Awake at Galerie XII in Paris.
Margaret Lansink’s work is created around a strong signature of aesthetic, poetic and minimalistic images that convey a powerful emotional message. This is substantiated by her usage of intuitive photography, creating imagery that presents an open and honest reflection of her emotions, doubts, reflections or struggles in life. Shot as ‘self-portraits’ in the broadest sense of the concept, they reveal her inner emotions at a certain time, space and interaction.
To capture the atmospheric variety of these inner emotions, Lansink uses various analogue techniques and experiments with making collages, using paint, gold leaf, charcoal as well as old darkroom technology like liquid light or platinum palladium printing – to produce beautiful and often unique artworks.
Margaret Lansink studied at the PhotoAcademy in Amsterdam, the Masterklass in Paris, and Atelier Smedsby in Paris, before embarking on a career as a fine art photographer.
Her artworks have been exhibited in galleries around the world, and at leading art fairs including Paris Photo, Unseen Amsterdam Photography Fair, Photo London, Photo Basel, Moderne Art Paris Fair, and Rotterdam Art Fair.
She was awarded the Grand Prize of Hariban Award (2019), and was shortlisted for the Gomma Grant (2018).
