Marieke Peeters

Underneath the skin of things familiar, the elusive presence of the outside calls. Between whispering walls, its unsettling allure remains distant. Here the world is approached backwards, the inside derived through the outside, a disguise that is as revealing as it is misleading.

Marieke Peeters creates performative installations and sculptures that combine intensive material research with a performative perspective. She researches how objects relate to one another when they always remain partly hidden from one another. In her practice humans are considered objects as well. Not less or more important and mysterious than the things they are surrounded by. Marieke is driven by her desire for but inability to connect with the people, things and places around her. This desire has a dark attraction that materialises in her work in the sensation of the eerie. A calm inner disturbance that stalks you and offers a repose from the things that once seemed familiar. Hiding is an instrument she often deploys to question the implications and agency of the hidden object.

The project she is working on now features a disguise for her own bedroom made entirely from dark brown wool. Wool is an inherently transformative and changeable material. It is a hide for a living creature and suggests there might be more hidden in your bedroom than dust and spiders. The intensive material process that lies at the core of this project becomes obsessive, which drives the work physically and conceptually. Through the process of washing, combing and felting wool onto everything inside her bedroom (including herself), she transforms the room into an entity that is both alien and strange yet also eerily intimate and familiar. The room reveals itself as a seemingly breathing and living organism that poses as an intrusive and unattainable being.

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