Pale Horse is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Dutch artist Marijn van Kreij (b. 1978, Middelrode). Living Together explores van Kreij’s sustained engagement with appropriation, repetition, and the immediate interplay between image and language, situating the artist’s studio as a site of encounter, experimentation, and image-production. At the centre of the exhibition is a new work by the artist based on a 1977 Newsweek cover featuring an illustration by Edward Koren under the heading ‘Living Together’. The magazine had been lying around van Kreij’s studio for many years, quietly asserting its presence and direct relation to a much...
Pale Horse is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Dutch artist Marijn van Kreij (b. 1978, Middelrode). Living Together explores van Kreij’s sustained engagement with appropriation, repetition, and the immediate interplay between image and language, situating the artist’s studio as a site of encounter, experimentation, and image-production.
At the centre of the exhibition is a new work by the artist based on a 1977 Newsweek cover featuring an illustration by Edward Koren under the heading ‘Living Together’. The magazine had been lying around van Kreij’s studio for many years, quietly asserting its presence and direct relation to a much earlier collage made in 2016. For van Kreij, the studio is a space in which images linger, resurface, and dialogues and connections are formed over time. In this pairing, the notion of living together works on multiple registers; as domestic coexistence and as social and political arrangement.
The apparent simplicity of van Kreij’s work is highly deceptive. These works operate as “miniature visual poems”, in which the artist manages to viscerally dissect ideas and theories concerning our general condition. Living Together brings together works spanning nearly two decades, situating van Kreij’s reflective and often humorous works within broader questions of authorship, perception and that which constitutes our shared reality. Van Kreij’s work is subtly provocative; visual puns and oblique combinations subliminally suggest that our reality is both fragile and provisional, albeit poetic.
Le monde est à vous. Le monde est à nous.
[The world is yours. The world is ours]
