marianne holm hansen | biography ||



Studio View, 2008		Marianne Holm Hansen works across media to consider how we come to experience things as we do and how this potential for experiences can be changed. With a focus on the role of memory within interpretation, she works through collective histories, personal stories, within sites and public collections, to consider how experience is divergently formed and disseminated through system, image and language. From here, she is interested in making visible how particular versions of memory is, or can be, re-presented and re-interpreted, to maintain or to shift personal and collective understandings of sites and situations. The development of the work itself includes aspects of independent studio practice, research, conversation and collaboration. At times, the latter takes place through residencies, commissioned events or participatory projects that provides a forum for the exchange, development and public assessment of work and its ideas. In line with this, current work is exploring the 'making' of site, space and place, by testing how the immediacy of writing, drawing, photography and mapping-technologies may make it possible to individually and collaboratively evidence - record, interpret and communicate - experience as, and where, it takes place. Marianne Holm Hansen studied at the Fynske Academy of Fine Art, (Denmark, 1987-1989), the International Center of Photography (New York, 1991-1993) and completed an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, at Goldsmiths (University of London, 2003). Her work has been shown across America and Europe and she has held international residencies in the UK, USA, France and Serbia. Marianne is currently based in London.