Marjolijn van den Assem

Marjolijn van den Assem’s work is about the thought process during (imaginary) journeys. Parallel with the search to set a course, ideas form themselves into images. Reading correspondence, especially that of Friedrich Nietzsche, transcribing parts of it, tracking down and visiting the locations where letters were actually written and where meetings could have taken place or journeys were made to, is what underpins the work being exhibited at this Paper Biennial. A drawing consists of transcribed parts of a particular piece of correspondence, executed in Indian ink using a dip pen, punctuated by the illustrated (imaginary) meeting places. --website