Margaret Lansink

  • 代表作品

    Borders of Nothingness - On the Mend

    In the infinite low of everything, people come and go in our lives. While the presence of some can be so subtle that we hardly register when it begins or ends, with others it’s far clearer: they enter, or leave, with a bang. In Borders of Nothingness, Margaret Lansink dwells in the transitional ambiguity of her adult daughter’s decision to suspend contact with her, photographing landscapes and nude women whose disappearing presence raises the same haunted question: is this the moment you were gone? As time passed, Lansink and her daughter reconnected to investigate whether their break could be mended. Lansink then began to revisit and reinterpret Borders of Nothingness in a physical practice that mirrored their emotional efforts of healing. Working from the Japanese practice of repairing ceramics with gold leaf, she combines her images, severs them, and mends their breaks with gold leaf to put hope into the possibility of a bond that is stronger and more beautiful because it had once been broken.

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    Bodymaps

    In every phase of life, the essence of life is different. But what’s the essence of life if you grow older? When a certain age seems to be a signal for society to move you to its fringes. When you are young, you can conquer the world. You determine and everything seems feasible, seems adaptable to your wishes in that particular moment. Instant happiness is in your own hands. When you are older, you still have the desire to be seen, to be recognized by that same society. For what you are. For who you are. Do you hide your real age (with the aid of cosmetic intervention), do you accept society or do you fight these (unwritten) rules of society. Bodymaps is Lansink’s visual interpretation of this ambivalence, showing compassion for women in their later stage of life. When aging and the visible traces of life are evident. Her images seem to ponder; ‘do you hide these traces and scars or do you show and cherish them as memories of your life?’ Lansink interconnects these very feminine images with close up of traces from Mother Nature where human intervention has left deep, almost irreversible impact. Seemingly suggesting we better not intervene with nature’s processes of aging but instead show respect and embrace its outcome.

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  • 人物生平

    人物生平

    Netherlands , 1961



    Margaret Lansink is a fine art photographer who graduated PhotoAcademy Amsterdam in 2012. She studied in 2016 at LeMasterklass Paris and in 2020 at the Masterclass of Smedsby Atelier, also in Paris. The works of Margaret have been awarded with Hariban Award 2019 (Borders of Nothingness - On the Mend). Lansink participates in exhibitions, residencies and competitions in Holland and abroad. Her work has been shown in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leiden, Den Helder, Antwerp, Arles, UK, New York, Vancouver, Japan, Tbilisi, Kaunas and Barcelona. In 2016 she has been rewarded with an AIR with the Kaunas Gallery in Lithuania (november 2016) and with Shiro Oni Studio in Japan (august 2017); both for her project ‘the Kindness of One’. She has published 5 books and one more book will be launched in May 2020. Margaret is member of FemmesPHOTOgraphes Paris and member/founder of iwi_collective. Additionally, she often coaches young photographers in developing their signature and portfolio. Who we are is often determined by our social environment and (family) history. How we build our self-esteem, often determines how we look to the outside world and how we react to the other. In her work, Lansink explores these relationships, trying to bridge the personal and universal. The way she photographs is purely intuitive; her images present an open and honest reflection of her own inner emotions at a certain time, space and interaction. Shot as self-portraits in the broadest sense of the word. With this intuitive way of photography she invites the spectator to embark on a journey through his/her own intricate web of memories, emotions, expectations, fears and desires. Margaret Lansink uses various analogue camera’s to capture the different atmospheres of her inner emotions. Giving the images the freedom to act as an overflow from reality to dream and vice versa. More and more she experiments with her images, with paint, goldleaf, charcoal as well as with liquid light in the darkroom.

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