Peim van der Sloot
Peim van der Sloot (1986) grew up on in Argentina, graduated from the art academy in Utrecht (HKU) in 2010 and has since been working in the lively niches between visual arts, design and performance. Through a range of graphic techniques including sticker-collages and silkscreen he developed a very characteristic style.
His optical illusions portray a strong urge for disorder. Within fixed grids he manages to introduce an unexpected flair of anarchy. With strong contrasts and vibrating colors, compositions are created full of movement, were the thin line between order and chaos is distorted. This same playfulness is applied on the sale of his works. He questions the assumptions on which our economy is based on, but also his artistic practice, constantly challenging both.
“To explain to people that don’t know my work: if you go to an exhibition in a gallery and one of the artworks gets sold they put a red dot sticker under the work to show that the artwork has been sold.
And I started working with those stickers as the artwork itself. So one of my first exhibitions I did, I was selling empty frames with only my signature in it. So if anyone would like to buy the frame with my name on it, I would put the red dot sticker on the frame itself. So the selling of the artwork would become the artwork itself.”
You describe yourself as an artist, activist and wizard. What kind of wizard?
PEIM: A wizard is somebody who puts people together, creates awareness and informs them about what’s going on and how you can start this journey to make a change.