During Art Island 2024 we are presenting a solo exhibition by Mirjam Vreeswijk (NL, 1997). For the special setting of the island, the artist is creating a new series of paintings presented in an exciting staging. By presenting works in unusual ways, for example hanging from the ceiling, the fort's special architecture is accentuated.

The paintings of Mirjam Vreeswijk explore the different layers of consciousness. A painting is an optical illusion, an image that attempts to imitate something. Mirjam plays with this fact in her work. Different realities exist side by side. While looking, you become confused by a constant process of revealing and concealing and changing from the manageable to the improbable. In this way she reveals the different layers of meaning that run through the surface of the painting and the subject.

Her work arises from collages of objects or images that appeal to her in one way or another. For example, shiny ribbons, designer shoes and images from seventies ornamental books. From this archive of materials, she intuitively builds compositions, first in models, then on canvas. Step by step, Mirjam looks at what the image needs in order to eventually arrive at the perfect composition and perfect structures of paint. Her intuitive or subconscious approach gives the paintings a surrealistic feel that touches on elements of product photography, still life and landscape painting.