Maria Bronsema

I NEED TO BALANCE AND FIGHT

MARIA maakt mixed-media installaties. Haar kubistische reliëfs en expressieve performance video’s vormen samen een vloeiend geheel. Ze voelt de vrijheid om haar persoonlijke thema’s te gebruiken, om tegelijkertijd jou uit te nodigen tot introspectie. Daarnaast schreef MARIA een gedeelte van haar abstract in spoken-word en vertolkt dat bij haar installaties doormiddel van performance.

Abstract performance:

I will tell you my story about rules and desire for freedom
You can feel me, because the story is mine.
Next time it can be you, if you want to do the performance.
I cannot pay you. Also don’t blame me after, for feeling.

Art is freedom where we can feel free from boundaries.
Art is freedom where we can lean on closed lines.
Also, don’t mind the English. It’s a needy feel
to be universal. Like the genitals in my paintings.

Life is heavy, but the movement makes it light.
I am used to discharge physically, to obey a
psychic impulse. So better move to balance the truth.
Miró told me that one day. I think he had ADD too.

I can start with thinking how to make a piece of art.
Happens everywhere and every time.
Kind of annoying, but the trick is, just do.
For me it’s very hard to focus on one.

It’s one piece and more pieces at the same time
Like life, you know. I refrain from true nature,
because in my mind the colours do not fit.
They are a bit light, because the world is big.

I need to be able to do it at any time of the day.
That’s why I have enough canvas,newspapers I don’t
read, flower and acrylic paint in stock.
Luckily, I already carry my body.

The search for colour did not come from studies.
They come through the way of feeling.
It comes from the outside, from revelation of light in nature.
Matisse said. I used my windows a lot. Not literally.

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you.
I used my story now, but I saw yours through my Window.
My empathic ability is big enough.
I know so because I had therapy.

Sometimes I really don’t know what I’m doing.
But it kind of makes sense, after seeing Club Guy & Roni.
They’re telling me, stay true to improvisation and expression.
Those are my ingredients for the right foundation.

I always begin by rolling on a canvas.
I catch the shapes of the forms I make with my body.
Later the story will be known, but not to you.
You can ask for it, though.

I need to do this.
It’s not a 10 second ride, like you do in a museum.
You need to do whatever you want.
As long as my art is in that museum.

You can feel, don’t understand, experience whatever.
Maybe I’m even hoping you forget your necessary
overthinking. I kind of get Mark Rothko, you know him?
He also didn’t care about his last name.

For a long time I didn’t know that I had to mix the media.
When in fact I already did by questioning the whole thing.
Just like Guy & Roni continue to question the concept
of dance. That’s nice. I feel a bit the same.

It feels like it’s all falling in place now and finally it begins.
I must confess that it often comes naturally.
But to understand, took me a while.
Can't wait to forget everything again.

The study of the materials is clear but forever evolving.
I need to make relief paintings for cubistic locked forms.
I need my performance videos for breaking through.
But I can’t live without either of them.

Because
All my life I need to balance and fight.

‘’Ik heb de eerste twee installaties gemaakt van mijn expositie ‘I NEED TO BALANCE AND FIGHT’. Het vechten naar balans binnen twee werelden die voor mij onmisbaar zijn, en waar ik tegelijk naar verlang. Ik begrijp het nu, dus ik ben begonnen. Ik begin vanuit improvisatie, om het vervolgens plat te bombarderen met urenlang compositiebepaling, om vervolgens de bevrijding te vinden met beweging. Begrijp je dat?

Mijn poëtische benaderingen is de enige verbindende manier. De norm vindt dat ik niet duidelijk spreek. Ik probeer het altijd wel. Niet meer ten opzichte van de kunst.’’