Marleen Sleeuwits (1980)
Ongoing Series of False Ceilings
2024 | screen printing in 3 printing passes and pastel chalk on suspended ceiling plate in a perspex box | 49 × 36.5 cm
Mundane, impersonal spaces are the main characters in the work of multidisciplinary artist, Marleen Sleeuwits. She started her career by photographing them. When she visited these buildings, she often took home materials she found there – like carpet tiles and neon tubes – to use in her art. This caused her two-dimensional work to get a more three-dimensional character.
Multiple pieces from the ‘Ongoing Series of False Ceilings’ series are in the ING Collection, in which optical illusions make us look differently at a seemingly ‘boring’ part of a building: its ceiling. In her work, Sleeuwits researches the boundaries of perspective and how we experience a space.
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