Palaeoart in Cyanotype

A cyanotype dress contemplating mass extinction and a headpiece made from the wool of the sheep living at bio art laboratories with Lyme Regis fossils

Hosted by Lauren Raaijmakers

This project is now archived and was part of DDW23

Event type

Exhibition

Location

Strijp T+R

BioArt Laboratories

Oirschotsedijk 14-10

5651 GC

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lauren raaijmakers

Lauren Raaijmakers is an artist from working with decay, collapse and resurrection. During her months of rest, the artist has been tracing the footsteps of scientists Mary Anning and Anna Atkins both born in 1799. Searching for fossils in Lyme Regis and producing photograms of plants.

Barren landscape

For the dress Lauren used the photographic cyanotype process.inspired by the works of Anna Atkins the botanist. Disclosing a history and future of decay and resurrection. The headpiece is made from the wool of the Ouessant sheep living at bio art laboratories. Embellished with fools gold (Pyrite) ammonite fossils found at Lyme Regis bay. Contemplating the discoveries by Mary Anning the paleontologist. Reflecting on the knowledge and skill that we lose through time and their situatedness. And admits this climate crisis, how can we overcome this crippling fear? Will it help to fantasize about what will come after our demise, after microorganisms will have consumed our bodies? When layers of sediment apply their pressure in return. What creatures will arise and take over the landscape that in our mind is so barren? Can this maybe soften our sorrow of seemingly lost futures?

Participants of this exhibition

Lauren Raaijmakers

Palaeoart in Cyanotype

Hosted by

Lauren Raaijmakers
laurenraaijmakers1@gmail.com
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About Lauren Raaijmakers

Lauren raaijmakers is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in bio art, visual culture and photography. She works with complicated topics such as transience, suffering and portraying complex emotions. The ethical questions that arise from the visual language we use are central to her research. In her artistic practice she confronts the audience with these complicated topics and entices them. She is based in the Netherlands and graduated in 2021 with honors from the Willem de Kooning academy.