Femke Dekkers (1980, NL) The work of Femke Dekkers plays games with the powers of perception. Yet she does not hide the perspective correction that she performs to manipulate the viewer’s perception. If you take a closer look at her photos, you gradually discover how the photographed sets are thoughtfully constructed. Through the use of hybrid materials varying from ceramics and paper to wood and paint, Femke raises a field of tension between static structures and picturesque perspectives. In this artistic space, she investigates the possibilities of photography as a medium with both sculptural and paint-like qualities.

 Marleen Sleeuwits (1980, NL) As a multidisciplinary artist, Marleen has a keen eye for the disconcerting quality of seemingly mundane, everyday spaces. Central to her work is the examination of impersonal environments – places that could be at once everywhere and nowhere. Marleen’s artistic practice gradually evolved from photographing these spaces to intervening with them. She frequently reuses location-specific materials – such as panels from dropped ceilings, carpet tiles, fluorescent lighting tubes and glass wool – in her installations. She plays with perspectives, optical illusions and scale. In her most recent work, Marleen reflects on our relationship with inconspicuous places and materials — spaces we pass by daily without truly seeing them. In these artworks, she focuses in particular on the suspended ceiling — a material we often encounter but rarely notice. She invites the viewer to reflect on our living environment: in what kind of setting and décor does our life take place, and how do we relate to it?