I often refer to choreography. Questioning choreography as a medium and its terminology by the use of different media; approaching an installation, a weave or letterpress print as such. I perceive all my work as dances, choreographies. All nuances are as well choreographic tools. Compositions on paper are small dances, or big ones. A book is a moving composition navigated through time and space. I wish to create works that ‘move’, that have a time and space element and translate directly into embodied matter. Where abstractions and systems are embodied.

Susan Sontag: “We have to cut back content in order to see the whole”

I look at the sky, see the clouds, the blue, the night, stars, sun, every day again. A holding structure, gradienting at every moment, different every day and night. It manifests itself the moment it is changing, always disappearing the moment it appears.

Bojana Cvejic: “Dance is not a metaphor.”

And of course, in arts we have
a table, and a wall. Even though
dance inhabits space constantly,
dancers have no anchor. No
space is ever occupied. Open
space, filled whilst immediately left
by the dancing bodies. In dance,
no space got my unique stamp, my
resting point, my building and
unfolding work. Suddenly,
as a visual artist, I will inhabit
the space stationary.
My table. My wall.

Maren Weertman (1998, Amsterdam) is a visual artist and dancer whose
practice moves nomadically between mediums and formats, weaving across
disciplines without ever settling in one. She translates mathematical, linguistic,
or self-invented systems into embodied and material compositions.
Through print making and analog processes such as letterpress, etching,
offset printing and drawing, she explores slowness, repetition, and care as
forms of resistance against immediacy.

Her practice develops through a plurality of interconnected works that revisit
a theme over time and across media, grounded in the human touch, in the
search for common language, in gestures, imperfections, and the traces of time.
In her dance and performance practice, movement becomes another way to
physically embody abstraction: to give form to patterns, systems, and relations.

Both her practices share a fascination with how knowledge, once abstracted,
can be re-embodied and approached differently. And by that, questioning
systems and transforming them into sensorial experiences.
Translating systems and knowledge into different media, is keen to this vision
and her work. Performances are often translated into printed forms, – or vice
versa – creating tangible outcomes that extend and archive her ephemeral work.

Alongside her own artistic practice, she performs and collaborates with
choreographers and artists in the Netherlands and abroad. She also teaches
workshops and classes at various institutions. Both in the field of dance and
visual arts.