Marielle Videler - 34.09 m2

34.09 m2
2015

installation

The installation consists of a wall drawing and vase with reed
Dimensions wall drawing 43.99 X 0.775 m (34.09 m2)

Based on research into the natural landscape and the design of the urban landscape in Amsterdam, Mariëlle Videler developed the installation entitled: 34.09 m2. The number 34.09 is a green standard; the number of square meters 'green' that should be available in Dutch towns and villages for each resident to ensure the quality of life, wellbeing and health (Nota Ruimte, VROM, 2004). Mariëlle wanted to investigate how she can relate to this area.
Before the cultivation of the lower areas in the Netherlands, peat, moss and reeds were dominant plant species in this water-rich landscape. In one of the small nature reserves in Amsterdam South East, she cut large forests of reeds together with the trustees; nature association De Ruige Hof. After drying the long reed stems, she investigated the characteristics and possibilities of the material, for example trying to braid with it and cutting a lot of short reed stems. While sketching with Indian ink, she explored the vegetable tools and the typical, unpredictable, lines that flow from them. This is how the idea arose to visualize 34.09 m2 by creating a mural. With the freshly cut reed pens and Indian ink, I drew horizontal surfaces on the exhibition walls, placed close to the ground. Mariëlle opted for a tight, continuous composition made up of the patterns of various traditional braiding methods; in which regularity is tested by the unpredictability of the tools and the effort of the human body. To create the mural, she drew continuously for 15 days with her body low and close to the wall. All the lanes added together form an area of 34.09 square meters, a green standard filled with a dizzying number of ink lines and a grid of pencil dots.


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		34.09 m2 2015 installation The installation consists of a wall drawing and vase with reed Dimensions wall drawing 43.99 X 0.775 m (34.09 m2) Based on research into the natural landscape and the design of the urban landscape in Amsterdam, Mariëlle Videler developed the installation entitled: 34.09 m2. The number 34.09 is a green standard; the number of square meters 'green' that should be available in Dutch towns and villages for each resident to ensure the quality of life, wellbeing and health (Nota Ruimte, VROM, 2004). Mariëlle wanted to investigate how she can relate to this area. Before the cultivation of the lower areas in the Netherlands, peat, moss and reeds were dominant plant species in this water-rich landscape. In one of the small nature reserves in Amsterdam South East, she cut large forests of reeds together with the trustees; nature association De Ruige Hof. After drying the long reed stems, she investigated the characteristics and possibilities of the material, for example trying to braid with it and cutting a lot of short reed stems. While sketching with Indian ink, she explored the vegetable tools and the typical, unpredictable, lines that flow from them. This is how the idea arose to visualize 34.09 m2 by creating a mural. With the freshly cut reed pens and Indian ink, I drew horizontal surfaces on the exhibition walls, placed close to the ground. Mariëlle opted for a tight, continuous composition made up of the patterns of various traditional braiding methods; in which regularity is tested by the unpredictability of the tools and the effort of the human body. To create the mural, she drew continuously for 15 days with her body low and close to the wall. All the lanes added together form an area of 34.09 square meters, a green standard filled with a dizzying number of ink lines and a grid of pencil dots.