{"id":1013,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"lidwien-van-de-ven","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1963-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Lidwien","lastname":"van de Ven","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Lidwien van de Ven","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"van de Ven, Lidwien","stream_count_app":26,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/691/large/lidwien_van_de_ven.jpg?1370422767","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":2,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rotterdam-based artist \u003cstrong\u003eLidwien van de Ven\u003c/strong\u003e investigates and plays on our habitual ways of perception and interpretation. Her installations, photographic and video works treat motifs such as expectation, conditioning, intuition, meaning, association, imagination and reality-distortion. The process of reading and decryption of an image is central here. The artist is primarily interested in domains like religion, politics and the mediatic image. Since the start of the 1980s, Van de Ven has made penetrating, monumental black-and-white photographs where she herself is the main protagonist, though without them being self-portraits. From 1988 on, she introduces new elements into her work: animals, plants and (later) texts as well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAll the various aspects of her work \u0026ndash; image and word, but also for example the furniture that she incorporates in her installations \u0026ndash; constitute \u0026lsquo;equivalent\u0026rsquo; building blocks for possible stories. In the 1990s her work becomes even more complex, and she handles quite diverse motifs. Her new photographs are more blurred, difficult to read and more varied in nature. Around the mid-nineties, Van de Ven makes the move to film. Much of her filmic work is quite reminiscent of the still images of photography. The artist shows the viewer series of images, carefully chosen and combined, but still without wanting to take us by the hand. She leaves it up to us to look, evaluate and draw our own conclusions. Lidwien van de Ven does not call herself a storyteller, but she does provide her public with the building blocks to construct one (or more) of their own. Her work is open to different interpretations, available for different readings.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLidwien van de Ven\u003c/strong\u003e maakt sinds het begin van de jaren 80 indringende, monumentale zwart-witfoto\u0026rsquo;s waarin ze zelf centraal staat, zonder dat het zelfportretten zijn. Vanaf 1988 introduceert ze nieuwe elementen in haar werk: dieren, planten, en later ook tekst.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn de jaren 90 wordt haar werk nog complexer. Haar nieuwe foto\u0026rsquo;s zijn waziger, moeilijker leesbaar en meer divers. In het midden van de jaren negentig zet van de Ven de stap naar film, maar veel van haar filmisch werk doet sterk denken aan stille beelden uit de fotografie. In plaats van de snelle consumptie van mediabeelden, probeert van de Ven een interpretatieproces op gang te brengen, een proces dat tijd en aandacht vraagt.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDe kunstenares speelt een intelligent spel op het grensgebied tussen wat men ziet en wat men kan vermoeden, voelen, en vaak niet precies kan omschrijven. Alle aspecten in haar werk vormen evenwaardige bouwstenen voor mogelijke verhalen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"","place":"Rotterdam","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}},{"country":"","place":"Hulst","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"","place":"Paris","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}}]}