Maud van Baar de Knegt
She/her
Amsterdam, 1998
@maudvanbaar
maudvanbaar.com
maudvbdk@gmail.com
Thesis: lover, loner, loser
Using observations and found materials from her urban surroundings, Maud van Baar de Knegt transforms the everyday into poetic propositions. She brings discarded objects into her studio and stacks, paints, layers, balances, cuts, deforms, juxtaposes, reconfigures, and suspends them into installations, sculptures, and performances.
Form becomes an attempt to navigate contradictory emotional landscapes: through disclosure and concealment, balance and collapse, distance and closeness, familiar and unfamiliar, solid and ephemeral. A negotiation between forces. The difficult longing between opposing materials or objects, almost touching, almost failing, can feel close to life itself; tender, charged, and precarious.
