Maurice Meewisse

The driving force behind my practice is a curiosity about how specific contexts are seen and experienced and with the question whether it is or could not be otherwise. I see context as a broad concept that does not just concern the physical place, but also the politics surrounding it, the institution and the reason why I am there. My work is in principle site-specific, whereby I see the 'site' as part of a complex network of interests, projections and relationships. Within that I look for a discrepancy, a certain complexity or a potential hidden beneath the surface. These finds function as the impulse to create a new work for which I use different techniques, ranging from sculpture to performance. I do an aesthetic intervention and try to provoke a re-evaluation of our patterns of perception or behavior.