⬤ Artist(s) & Author(s): Ansuya Blom
⬤ Publisher: Jap Sam Books, i.c.w. Centraal Museum Utrecht
⬤ Price: €35
⬤ Language(s): English
⬤ Pages: 288
⬤ Size: 20.5x32.75cm
⬤ Edition: 1000
⬤ Year: 2024
⬤ Print: fc
⬤ Binding: softcover, sewn, dust jacket
⬤ ISBN: 978-94-93329-09-6
⬤ Tags: Art / Film / Video
⬤ About Publication:
“Below the Underground, the title Blom gave to this publication, is characteristic. It is an invitation to dig deeper than the skin, than the surface.” - Laurie Cluitmans
Over the past forty years, Ansuya Blom (Groningen, 1956) has built up a body of work in which she explores the boundaries of the inner world of experience. In drawings, collages, films and installations, she unravels these complex relationships of humanity with himself, the other and the outside world. 
"Her works are not necessarily analyses of particular novels or pieces of writing, the texts form a point of departure for seeking out the friction between the self, the internal world of experience, and the systems and classifications of the external world. In the passage from internal to external, anxiety, miscommunication, misinterpretation and confusion can arise. The 'I' has to relate to systems that are assumed stable. To show this movement, her drawings, collages and films often start with one specific person: in her films she adopts a first person perspective. She invites the viewer to empathize with the individual before the largers systems of interpretation are brought into play" - Laurie Cluitmans