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Maaike Anne Stevens
Netherlands
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 27.6x19.7in
About this artwork
The work is a 3-part screenprint.
A total of 1065 readers participated in this collective reading of the book Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes in which, through a process of elimination, the story was distilled to one sentence by asking people who were progressively closer to me to give me their most resonant phrase. Physically approaching 912 strangers in the public sphere mimicked the monstrous connectivity of online communication and a shaping… of our identity in response to others. The tireless repetition of the same question eventually accumulated in a final sentence that was left to me as a self-portrait through language: an unfulfilling and non-restorative answer, mirroring the madness of the novel it originated from. The original installation was translated into this three-part screenprint in collaboration with the Jealous Gallery in London.
A total of 1065 readers participated in this collective reading of the book Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes in which, through a process of elimination, the story was distilled to one sentence by asking people who were progressively closer to me to give me their most resonant phrase. Physically approaching 912 strangers in the public sphere mimicked the monstrous connectivity of online communication and a shaping… of our identity in response to others. The tireless repetition of the same question eventually accumulated in a final sentence that was left to me as a self-portrait through language: an unfulfilling and non-restorative answer, mirroring the madness of the novel it originated from. The original installation was translated into this three-part screenprint in collaboration with the Jealous Gallery in London.
Maaike Anne Stevens
Netherlands
Credentials
- Works on commission
« I explore the authority of physical places in response to a shared online environment constructed from representative images. »
Maaike Anne Stevens is a Dutch visual artist based between Amsterdam and London. Working with sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, text and print, Stevens’ work investigates the temporal boundaries between the private and public realms, between the past and the future, and between the landscape and the subconsciousness.
