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Riedstra

Riedstra is een hedendaagse kunstenaar. Ze werkt aan schilder-, teken-, foto- en videoprojecten. Uitgangspunt in haar projecten is vervreemding in een brede context, gerelateerd aan de wereld van vandaag, geplaatst in een historische context. Riedstra is kunstcriticus en schrijft regelmatig recensies voor KunstKrant.nl.

​About Riedstra: A Working Process
In my opinion a work of Art defines several things: Among others, an authentic interpretation by the artist, meaning: one can recognise the hand of the artist in the concept that underlies the work.
By giving it the necessary surplus the artist commits himself to research his project.
Searching again and again for new ways in himself, in order to express what he/she tries to communicate to him/herself and the public.
A work with a different kind of  beauty, confrontational, forcing the audience to think and to look again.
The last, to me, is important. This you could mark as the contemporariness of an artwork the result and impact of my experiences show in my current work.
 
As for creative processes, they can’t be disconnected from experience; an artist needs these experiences in order to create art. But in the end I am back in my studio and have to create the next work with all the intense uncertainties that come along!




Project Refugees 2015 - 2016
 To be named refugees as part of anonymous numerous groups that are wandering around in Europe and elsewhere around the world is one thing.
To be able to give these people a face is another.
This as an artist is my small contribution.