Minne Kersten (1993, NL) is an artist residing in Paris and Amsterdam, who works with video, installation, and paintings. Beneath these mediums lies a literary approach, wherein she skillfully combines various techniques to construct a world in which objects and scenes hold fragments of both fact and fiction. She delves into the realm of memory, speculating on ways to recall events, memories, and stories by tracing what is lost in what remains. Her pieces contemplate the relationship between reality and imagination, the mundane and the transient, while raising questions about the nature of memory and reconstruction. Through her work, she draws attention to the process of construction in both our shared reality and imaginary world, bridging the gap between intimate themes such as grief, loss, and longing, and the collective realm of fiction, fables, and symbolism.
Her paintings and drawings are continually crafted through introspection and research. They serve as visual notes, created alongside her spatial approaches. In recent years, she has adopted the practice of building architectural environments, which reveal themselves as scenography, film sets, and subsequent sculptures. Influenced by personal encounters with spaces, these sculptures provide a tangible landscape for exploring how a space can bear witness to or distort stories and events. By staging situations that incorporate symbolic elements such as the presence of animals or phantom figures, she alludes to the ways in which the past can leave its mark on the present. Through the intentional introduction of chaos, decay, and disruption into her scenes, she presents various outcomes of the familiar experience of feeling unsteady, losing control, and undergoing a state of transition.
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