My sculptural work is based on a dialogue with materials. A sculpture starts with a love that I have for the aesthetic potentiality of a material and the history that it carries. Hidden in that material is then a possibility that a sculpture can reveal. In the sculptures of the past years the most heavy (stone), finds the lightest of materials (light). Meticulously-made objects are often combined with objects from nature, reconnecting human presence with this original source. These works are also the product of a quiet life in close proximity to nature. I see choosing precious materials, like selenite or alabaster, or even wood, materials that took many years to grow, as a form of resistance. To have a relationship with these materials while working in the studio and to take the time to shape them, is a form of resistance, to speed, consumerism and waste.

Besides the material there is also the mapping out of moods and feelings. Human feelings, like anger or pain. Or dualistic states that are both exposed and hidden; shapes that look for healing and transcendence. I think especially a sculpture in that way can be like a mirror with our own reality, because we are also made of matter, in that moment occupying the same space.

In this show the sculptures are counteracted with drawings much in the way I alternate between sculpture and drawing in the studio. In between sculptures I relax on paper, where gravity is easily defied and qualities of transparency as well as suggestions of space can be made with a single line. In a selection from the series ”Seedpods, Flowers and Wings”, reflections on the natural and the metaphysical are layered according to 3 principles: A plane, a shape and a line.

Lin de Mol’s work is included in the collections of Amsterdam Medical Centre , AKZO Nobel Art Foundation, ABN Amro, Caldic Collection, Leiden University Medical Centre, Utrecht Medical Centre, AEGON Art Foundation, DELA Art Foundation, and various private collections in The Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy. In Sweden, her work is included in the collections of the Statens Konstråd, Stockholm Konst, Konstenheten and Uppsala Public Art.

Exhibition from May 30 through June 27.
The gallery is open Wednesday – Saturday 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. and by appointment.