Maja Marx

Solo Exhibition
1 July - 31 July 2021

Exhibition Opening: Thursday 1 July 2021
Exhibition Closure: Saturday 31 July 2021

“Time is hugely important in my work. There’s a slowing down of time when I work. The idea of fermentation is relevant, it’s a gradual buildup. I start off with a set of rules and objectives, and they act like a scaffolding to build towards the moment where I can let go of those intentions and follow a logic that emerges from the work itself. Then there’s a kind of a freer, more independent flow of line or mark making, or colour placement. It takes time to allow each work to grow into its own visual logic and to understand how to follow that visual logic.

There’s a long tradition of female work, or craft that is closely related to a kind of a meditation, where it’s an active headspace. It fascinates me how a day can disappear. I love how I can lose myself in the surface of something that is essentially a piece of linen, pigment and oil.

Working in the environment of Twee Jonge Gezellen, there is a sense of time slowing down. It’s quieter, it’s peaceful, and you wake up with a different kind of intensity.”

Excerpt from artist interview. View full interview here.