Martine Jansen

Your practice moves between two seemingly opposing registers: the atmospheric restraint of your abstract paintings and the tangible corporeality of your sculptures. Do you experience these media as different semiotic systems, or as part of one structural language in which absence and embodiment are interchangeable?
I experience both practices as equally essential and compelling. It doesn’t feel right for me to limit myself to one form. Working across different media happens in a very natural and organic way. I don’t want to choose between painting or sculpture — they reinforce each other and give me a sense of freedom.