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Marijke Van Warmerdam
Marijke van warmderdam, skytypers, 1997
film 16mm, couleur, sans son
courtesy galerie van gelder, amsterdam
Born in 1959 in Amstel (Holland), she lives and works in Amsterdam.
Trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Marijke van Warmerdam has developed her work as a sculptor and then as a video artist since the 1990s, exhibited notably at the Venice Biennale in 1997. Her 16mm films, presented in relatively bright spaces with a visible projector, avoid narration, anecdote or psychological emphasis. The subject is always a simple looped action or situation (a bear in front of a door, a man taking a shower; two trucks, one orange, the other green, followed by the camera...), while the piece can be seen as an object, in a suspended time.
The work Skytypers (1997), made from white smoke traced by five aeroplanes in the sky, appears as an abstract painting in movement, with an impalpable beauty.