Maartje Folkeringa

Trick Or Trait Maartje Folkeringa

This first monograph of the work of young Dutch sculptor Maartje Fokeringa
proves a lively cut-and-paste sourcebook of the artist s colorful explorations
of popular culture. Her unusual artistic practice is couched in the relationship
between our personal belongings and our perception of self in society. She
creates large figurative sculptures representing complex characters inspired
by people she meets and observes in everyday life. Her overscaled human
forms are significant for the accessories that adorn them and the gallery walls.
From ornamental figurines to abstracted jewelry to paint-splattered biomorphic
forms, Fokeringa is concerned with the use and exchange of objects as forms
of nonverbal communication totems signaling status, class and value. This
exhibition catalog contains early work, as well as the new sculptures fabricated
during a residency at the Beeldenstorm foundry in Eindhoven and later
installed in the workspace at Onomatopee.