Mariane Vierø is interested in how our understanding of something is formulated, how already existing perceptions influence the process of interpreting new matter, and whether we first see the aspects already known to us or the things unfamiliar to the eye.
Marianne Vierø's (Copenhagen, 1979) dominant subject in her work so far has been an investigation of the distance between ideal and illusion. She works with photography and installation, sometimes as one inseparable entity, sometimes as two different mediums. The objects used in her work are mostly ordinary and unspectacular; still they often appear in a context that lends them a different value, leading to a renegotiation of our understanding of them. Formally, her work is at once confirming and rejecting different parameters for how it can be read. The artist leaves room for contradictions; she works with a subtle distortion of perceptual preconceptions and introduce a loss of orientation.
Mariane Vierø is interested in how our understanding of something is formulated, how already existing perceptions influence the process of interpreting new matter, and whether we first see the aspects already known to us or the things unfamiliar to the eye.
Marianne Vierø has been resident artist at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Triangle Arts Association in NYC, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.