Marlous van der Sloot (1986) works on the border of applied photography and contemporary art, in which she focus on the immaterial world. The world of feelings and emotions. It attempt to make the modern human aware of all the expectations and obligations in daily life. She aims to gain more attention on the inner self.
Marlous sees her work as a criticism on the alienation of the human being.The rationalization of modern society and culture breaks our immediate contact with the world. Today it seems we are just
reasoning. We forget to feel.
The ‘alienation’ is both her theme as visual appearance. She likes to play with ‘the eye’. The image is often not what it seems to be in the first place. Leaves on a tree are green balloons. An Ice lolly is
a tongue on a stick. But also human figures in weird postures and gestures, which give us a sense of strangeness.
Marlous van der Sloot (1986)
Works and Lives in Den Haag, The Netherlands
Le corps vécu
Marlous Van der Sloot
Through May 15, 2012
Galerie Voies Off
26 ter, rue Raspail
13200 Arles (France).
