Ondertussen: Laura Snijders

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Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague

At the beginning of September Laura Snijders started converting the Ondertussen space into a temporary studio, from which she can work towards a presentation that will gradually develop and unfold over time. As a point of departure she asks herself what the role and meaning is of the human body in the context of her work and her art practice. A question that begins with an on-site investigation into how her own physical body relates to the space and to the body of the other. Snijders approaches this question like a playful investigation, with lots of interaction and exchange.

Since Laura Snijders graduated from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (Department Fashion and Textile) in 2018, her art practice has developed from fashion design towards autonomous visual research. Her interest in the human body (which was so normative in her earlier work) has remained, but always from broader perspective. She is driven by a curiosity about the forces, processes and mechanisms that determine how we dress, behave, manifest and see ourselves - like consumerism, (group) identity and standardization. It is often an intuitive, visual research into the underlying meanings, codes and languages, in order to understand, visualize or redirect them or put them on edge. Laura Snijders prefers to work with collage techniques, mainly on the flat surface, with textiles, paper and stickers but recently also more spatially in the form of installations and objects placed together.