Posted by Fabio 7 October 2013
Marlous van der Sloot graduated in 2011 from the Royal Academy of Arts in the Netherlands, where her work developed towards the perception of senses.
In the modern society we often want to forget that ‘the physical’ is also a source of information. Because of rationalisation, we turned away from our ‘ordinary’ world, convinced that our senses do not learn us anything valuable. But we cannot ignore our body and look at it as a ‘lifeless bag of cells’. We don’t just have a body, we are a body. Forgetting this gives us the same feeling as a sleeping arm. In this condition your limb is biological still yours, but you do not experience it as yours. It seems the arm of a stranger…
The alienation of our body is the theme of my work. My aim is to create images which raise physical awareness. _Marlous van der Sloot