Marloes van Son builds systems, installations and instruments. The electromechanical objects that she develops, explore natural phenomena and everyday appliances. By repurposing ordinary objects, she aims to create unusual, yet familiar experiences. Many of her works start from a visual component, but sound is always an integral part of the eventual piece.

” Yes, my worldview is fragmented. But my need and will to categorize and order adds to my need to understand people. Accordingly, for me art is not a singular event, not a lonely effort, but it is a lot about working together, structuring, organizing and narrating. “

I take pictures, record, and collect material in landscapes that interest me: rocky, icy, or salty terrain in, typically, barren northern or desert places. These landscapes evidence earthly processes; they are manifestations of the physical systems and physical laws that determine the visible “real world” we live in. My visual work and sound work have similar concerns: to create picture planes or sonic spaces which shift between depth and flatness, confuse “solids” and “empty” space, juxtapose the natural and the digital, and hang in a suspended balance just on the line between stillness and motion.