Margi Geerlinks (°Kampen - 1970) Lives and works in Rotterdam
Rietveld Academie of Amsterdam. Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Constantyn Huygens of Kampen.Sandberg Instituut of Amsterdam.
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, 2000. "Crafting Humanity", Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Richard Goodall, Manchester, 2001. "Face off" Aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, 2001. "Le clônage d'Adam", ISELP, Brussels, 2001.

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"The images that Margi Geerlinks creates are detached, yet touching. Withdrawn and removed from their natural environment, the models in her photographs are isolated in their actions; they seem to ignore the public alltogether. Geerlinks constructs a balanced image, which is sufficiently intriguing to hold the attention for longer. The stylized poses of the often naked bodies in her work call to mind fashion and advertising photography, in which beauty and style are all-important. However, Geerlinks manages to put the entrenched viewing behaviour that such aesthetics entail to the test through use of alienating detail. In a sometimes critical, sometimes absurd fashion, she broaches subjects that are so close to our everyday existence and the functioning of the body that the viewer becomes somewhat confused. Margi Geerlinks is fascinated by the relationship between the inside and outside of the human body, by its vulnerability, memory and survival. One of Geerlinks' earlier art works (1995) shows a model wearing a coat of flesh. As a second, inside-out, skin it covers her protectively. In 'Frauenfeld' (1997), three women lie in a Dutch landscape. Buried under sods of grass, only their heads and shoulders visible, they make the usually flat field slope. When they die, the landscape will slowly regain its old shape, but during life, the women stir the earth and seem to enjoy the blue sky above."