Ansuya Blom: below the underground

Abstract

Her works are not necessarily analyses of particular novels or pieces of writing, the texts form a point of departure for seeking out the friction between the self, the internal world of experience, and the systems and classifications of the external world. In the passage from internal to external, anxiety, miscommunication, misinterpretation and confusion can arise. The 'I' has to relate to systems that are assumed stable. To show this movement, her drawings, collages and films often start with one specific person: in her films she adopts a first person perspective. She invites the viewer to empathize with the individual before the larger systems of interpretation are brought into play." - Laurie Cluitmans. "Elusive is a word that comes to mind when I think about Blom's art. Not elusive because the communication is unclear, but elusive because both the works and the artist destabilize any word attributed to them. Blom consciously employs this as a strategy to show a different reality. Thinking in categories is insufficient, too, when it comes to her drawings, collages, paintings and films. Blom opposes this head on but with great subtlety." - Laurie Cluitmans.