Joanneke Meester [Purmerend, 1966] studied at the academie of fine arts and the Sandberg Institute.
Her installations, statues and videos are the result of a study into the buried violence present in every human being.

The stream of images from near and far reaching us through the media gives rise to the themes that Joanneke Meester expresses so probingly. "This stream of, sometimes horrible, images makes that we become inured to what we see and tend to accept it, distancing ourselves from it as a protection. I realise how easy it is to distance ourselves from things". In her work Meester research these borders; the feasibility as well as the vulnerability of people.

Joanneke Meester is represented by gallery Artspace Witzenhausen. The second of September they will open the gallery season with an installation of Meester 'Need You'.

with special thanks to:
eurogenie www.eurogenie.com
children fay hagedorn, gregor fisscher, lulu heine
maas bronkhuyzen, sem de keijser
dani kang graphic effects, frans van erkel editing
marijn de vlaming translations