Saskia Olde Wolbers

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Saskia Olde Wolbers (born 1971) is a Dutch video artist who lives and works in London.

Background

Since the mid-1990s, Saskia Olde Wolbers has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events. Her intricate videos are driven by a combination of otherworldly imagery – meticulously handmade model sets – and the apparent inner monologue of the voiceover in the audio book-like soundtrack. The films are shot underwater, miniature sets dipped in paint to create unstable imagery that abstractly illustrates the narrator's thought process.[1] In her most recent works, the music soundtrack has been composed by Daniel Pemberton.

She has exhibited widely since 1998.[2] Solo shows include: A Shot In The Dark at Vienna Secession, 2011; Goetz Collection, 2010; Mori Art Museum Tokyo, 2008; The Falling Eye at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2006; and Tate Britain, London, 2003. In 2014 she created an audio installation at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton, London, the house in which Vincent van Gogh lodged briefly in 1873–74.[3]

Author and curator Phillip Monk describes in his book The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files,[4] "Olde Wolbers not only joins fictional and documentary elements in her scripts, she links them to series of images, themselves fabricated and quite fantastic in their nature."

In 2010, Olde Wolbers lectured for the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.[5][6]

She is a lecturer at Goldsmiths University.[7]

Awards and prizes

Olde Wolbers has won the Baloise Prize (2003) and the Beck's Futures Prize (2004).[8]

References

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Further reading

  • 2011 Saskia Olde Wolbers, A Shot in the Dark, Secession. Template:ISBN
  • 2009 Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  • 2009 Automatic cities, The architectural image in contemporary art, Museum of contemporary art San Diego, Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers New York. Template:ISBN
  • 2008 Saskia Olde Wolbers, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Template:ISBN C0071
  • 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the moving image, Hirshhorn Washington DC. Template:ISBN
  • 2003 Now that part of me has become fiction, Artimo. Template:ISBN

External links

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