Marike Schuurman

Marike Schuurman works with photos, films and videos which depict reality without aiming to be mere documentation. The artist attempts to track down the small, hidden irritations concealed behind the appearance of reality; those that question our familiar view of things. Her large-format photo works challenge the public to investigate subliminal picture content and to develop their own perceptual scenarios. In Schuurman’s Berlin exhibition, the viewer is thus confronted by the remains of a former Russian military camp which is being reconquered by nature in the midst of a biosphere in Brandenburg. A different, disturbing world appears from behind its obvious realities.