Natasja Kensmil
In the end, a painting must comprise layers of accumulated images, added together to create a new image . . . It is a process of redigesting material and ideas.
Natasja Kensmil via Frozen Queen, catalogue, 2010
Natasja Kensmil (1973, Netherlands) refers often to human conditions and the interplay between history and the present. She uses history in her work because she is convinced that the present exists in relation and in negotiation with the past. In her work she questions repeatedly the relationship between man and his identity, the society in which he lives, religion, nature and himself. Construction and destruction are clearly visible in nature and man; this movement is an essential process in the urge for change and renewal. Kensmil’s work proves she does not shy away from this truth.
