MARJAN TEEUWEN: I AM AN ARTIST (IN CONVERSATION WITH STEVE MILLER)

STEVE MILLER: So Marjan, your work is compellingly beautiful, and brings up a myriad of issues relating to culture in our shifting global political climate. This issue of Musée is about power, and the press release for your exhibition at Silverstein Gallery states that your images illuminate the precarious balance of the power of destruction with the constructive implications of order and function. MARJAN TEEUWEN: My work deals with the polarity between the constructive and the destructive forces of mankind. People are very good at building up the world. We can build cities, we can go to the moon, but at the same time, we risk destroying our world. I often quote Dostoevesky, who believed that people couldn’t overcome that polarity. That’s the big important theme in my work,  standing up & falling down, chaos, and order. Sometimes, I lean a little bit more to the side of destruction, falling down… but you can feel both always.