Marie J. Engelsvold
Marie J. Engelsvold is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark, working in various medias such as sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video and performance.
The process of art making is her main focus. To play and experiment with all kinds of materials, allowing herself to be present in the chaos of creation.
She combines a lot of different materials in her constructions. Reusing materials from previous art works and arranging them in new constellations and new surroundings. She likes the history of the materials, that they have been used before, which makes them less perfect. They also have visual signs of having been used, which in her world makes them more enlivened. She combines materials that do not immediately fit together, in order to achieve diversity and multiplicity as an acknowledgment of the imperfect. Marie often arranges these materials in a form of symmetry or pattern, to make a unity between the different elements. Paradoxically creating a new kind of aesthetics together, that is not based on the value of the materials itself, but the energy they form as a new wholeness. She makes the structures based on the relationships and conversations, that are taking place between the materials in the process. Creating tangible energy patterns, structures of conciousness, feelings or thoughts. It’s a networking of materials, arranged in structures hanging from the ceiling or arranged up the wall, up of tree trunks in the forrest or as small installations on a shelve.
She process her own inner diversity and gives it a physical form. Her use of materials and the repeated forms have gradually developed into her own visual language.
Marie mainly works with wood, knitted ropes, plastics, ceramics, plaster, concrete, textiles, cardboard, foam rubber, natural objects, and all kinds of cords from ordinary twine to cables, chains or waterhoses.
Instagram: @mariejengelsvold
