Marie Julia Bollansée’s work is about people, about their lives and deaths and about the quest in the no man’s land in between. The physical is a constant factor in Ms. Bollansée’s videos and performances, as she was trained as a classic sculptor.
Ms. Bollansée’s dramatic power of observation is reflected in her video work. She frequently plays the role of observer, translating age-old human themes into images that we can all relate to. Her performances bring the everyday but often hidden forces into the light. Her photo installations create fields of tension between primary materiality, poetry, and aesthetic images.
She is fascinated by the chemical reactions caused by unexpected interactions and collaborations.  “I try to detect the chemistry between people and to formulate this in my work so that viewers become more aware of their humanity. I want to expand the frontiers of the perceptible. I’m convinced that people urgently need to see and understand the essential, but too often invisible, motives and sources in today’s society.”

Her work was selected by the Jackson Pollock Foundation in 2000. It was on view at several venues in Belgium and the Netherlands, and recently also  in Moscow, Istanbul and Vladivostok.
Marie Julia Bollansée was born in 1960 in Belgium, she lives and works in a village in the Antwerp area.

You can find a curriculum vitae here, and read an extended vision-text by the artist here. You can contact her by email.