TITLE: Water On Edge

People often think when they see my photos (because they are so symmetrical) that they are mirrored them in photoshop. Well, they are not!

Water On Edge is part of a process of learning how to look and experience a world awry. In the several seasons spent filming at the river banks of the Haute Loire, I have immersed myself in these in-between zones, filming from a vertiginous 90 degrees. Seen from this angle, the once so separate planes of sky, earth and water intermingle in interdependent, metamorphic and magical ecologies of worlding and becoming.

For me, this new way of gazing meant a completely new way to experience nature. It made nature even more precious to me.

Converting this series to black and white emphasized the interweaving of branches even more as if the lace was embroidery. In negative they started to resemble old etchings

WM Gallery Amsterdam:
“For more than eight years Marloes der Kinderen has been regularly wandering along this exclusive twenty-kilometers long virgin stretch of the Allier river in the heart of the French Massif Central, in search of the untouchable. Her patience and sense of observation allows her to uncover the invisible. The result of these peregrinations fascinates through its richness and beauty. More than that, der Kinderen offers a new look on things by challenging the pre-established laws of horizontality, allowing her to reveal the unseen. Are we seeing human beings, monsters, spirits? Are these animistic pictures? Is this neo-romantic? Are we dealing with an ecological statement? Finally, is there really need for any explanation?“

AUTHOR: Marloes Der Kinderen DerKinderen (Netherlands)

Marloes Der Kinderen was born in Eindhoven 1957. She studied Fine Art at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende kunsten ‘s Hertogenbosch and in her early 20’s was running a Modern art gallery in Eindhoven.
Der Kinderen completed an education as a Fine Art teacher at TeHa Tex in Tilburg. In the 1980’s taught at two high schools.

Der Kinderen she established an itinerary Art School, Artedu, with courses and workshops in Holland, Belgium and six different locations in France which attracted leading artists such as Rob Nypels and held workshops drawing and painting, photography, music, philosophy and creative writing courses.

As part of Artedu, Der Kinderen developed an art-training programme entitled CREAM Creative Active Management Development. CREAM combines of rightbrain drawing and management strategies for entrepreneurs.

In 1998 Der Kinderen initiated a Maison d’Hôte, La Grande Maison in Chanteuges, Auvergne; one of the sites of her Artedu workshops. Chanteuges has become a permanent centre for Artedu and also houses an atelier where Der Kinderen has finally had time to return to her own painting, collage and photographic works.

Der Kinderen currently splits her time between Chanteuges and a winter home on the ‘island’ of Marken, near Amsterdam

Exhibitions

-2018-2019 Dec-Jan Exhibition in the WTC Art gallery Rotterdam,
-2019 April-August Exhibition in KunstaanZ in Deventer
-2019 Oct-Nov Solo-Exhibition GNG galerie d’Art contemporain Paris
-2019 June-Nov Solo-Exhibition in Pebrac Auvergne at‘Le Pensée Sauvage
-2020 March - June Solo-Exhibition WMgallery in Amsterdam
-2020 October SIPA awards 2020: Honorable Mention
-2020 October GUP NEW Dutch talent 2021
-2021 April - Mai Solo-Exhibition The Art Gallery in Vichy