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Nelleke Bosland

Nelleke Bosland, a visual artist, graduated in 2016 from the Nieuwe Academie Utrecht. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

Her materials primarily consist of tape in various colors, often combined with video images. The video content emerges from the shapes and patterns visible in the tape drawings and is based on formal and/or conceptual aspects of the location. Her work serves as a reflection on its surroundings. Through her imagery, she seeks to capture the essence of the environment or a building by abstracting it.

Visitors represent the human scale in this work, becoming both literally and figuratively part of the experience as they wander through it. In her visual art, Bosland plays with different perspectives, creating a view of reality that counters the increasing polarization in society. Is it all perhaps true?

Using tape and moving light projections, Nelleke Bosland transforms existing architecture into disorienting worlds. Brightly colored lines and shadows rhythmically dance and intertwine, while reflective surfaces create a confusing repetition. The location intertwines with the projection, as the tape establishes unexpected spatial connections, uniting everything into a cohesive whole.

Presented in self-constructed, delineated spaces, an abstract, vividly colored world unfolds, where light projection and tape merge into a tangible reality that is sometimes indistinguishable from a computer-generated virtual reality.

Nelleke Bosland
Nelleke Bosland | Stichting EX