VALERIE VAN LEERSUM

artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

BINNENAARDS

Exposed: Into the Great Wide Open 2024

Thanks to: photographers Marleen Annema (1,2,3) // Sander Heezen (5) // Moon Saris (small pictures)

“I am searching for the place where the North Sea and the Wadden Sea meet. I have a deep love for places where two natural entities merge. The place where nothing is absolute, the transition zone, the gradient. They seem to remind us that everything is connected. On our maps and in our laws, we often divide our environment with lines and boundaries. It is a reflection of our human desire to organize, define, and even claim. But what would happen if we let go of this rigid perspective and started looking in a completely different way? Shifting, adapting, blending, embracing… just like the way two waters merge.”