AboutMaurice Nuiten, 1990, Roosendaal & Nispen, The Netherlands Let’s Postulate That Being Born Is An Inconvenience Thursday, June 13, 2019, 8:10:30 PM.
At the moment I am: So here we are, here and now, but now it’s already over. It’s about the moment you think about it. It is already a part of the past, but the past cannot be changed and the only thing we have left is the future. Words I have spoken cannot be undone, just like my previous actions, they have been done. Irreversible. Even when we stand still, we are still moving. There is no way to stop this, but we can capture it, to save it for the time being. Why are we here? This existential question forms the core from which further research and work originates. I use objects, situations and observations from daily life and (pseudo) science to show the paradoxical nature that life has for me. I search for meaning, but sometimes it is exactly as if it can be created, but if it escapes me it seems that it never existed. I try to show this paradox; giving meaning through my artistry and creating meaning in the work I create. At the same time, I keep asking the question time and time again, because the question cannot really be answered. This expresses the existential and personal nature of my work. This inconvenience of being born comes with life and life comes with love and loss, social pressure and expectations. We can always keep up appearances, pretend that everything is fine. Never knowing what is going to happen, everything is and at the same time nothing, but usually restless. Living in a haze, trying to forget reality and escape. Despite my frequent use of lens-based media, I do not call myself a “photographer” in the medium-specific sense of the word, performance, photography, film, installation and text are part of the explorations. The scope of instruments offers a wider pallet to understand the circumstances of my / our existence. This while I’m looking for the Lapis Beatitudinem Artist Statment, June 2019 —————————————————————————————————————— Maurice Nuiten is a visual artist, art curator and writer, and lives and works in Breda / Amsterdam. Nuiten studied Fine Art Photography from 2013 – 2015 at the Willem de Kooning academy in Rotterdam. He obtained his Master of Fine Art in 2017 at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures AKV | St.Joost in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. >Nuiten has been nominated for various prizes including the The Threshold Awards – Autonomous Practices, Municipality of Rotterdam (2015), Jong Ongekend Talent Award, by LeasePlan (2015), Best of Male Nude, Normal Magazine (2016), Young Talent Award from the Foederer Talenten Fonds (2016) and for the BLOOOM award (2017 and 2018). In 2015 Nuiten was the winner of “Self-Portrait” Self-Construtive in Bruges, Belgium and won the Audience Award October 2015 from Galerie Pouloeuff. His work has been shown at Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda (NL), Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmo (SE), RETHink Art Digital Festival, Réthymno (GR) and at several art initiatives, galleries and fairs in and outside of the Netherlands. He is represented by Gallery Josilda da Conceição, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The visual language of Maurice Nuiten is characterized by the use of the naked body (often maneuvered in surrealistic postures), everyday objects and daily life. However, performance forms the basis of the work, both as a form of research but also as a method to arrive at the final image or text. In his practice as a curator he has a focus on on personal stories, performance and lens-based media, queer-studies and gender-studies. With a critical view he produce shows that show what it means to be human in this day and age and how the personal is political. Besides his own practice he is also initiator and coordinator of WKNDX at Witte Rook, Breda.
|