Femmy Otten
ONE YEAR IN TEN
de ketelfactory, Schiedam, NL
6 May – 16 Jul 2017
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She is in search of beauty, brimming with desire and incredibly time consuming. Artist Femmy Otten explores beauty through wood, plaster and paper. From these materials, she creates elegant sculptures, reminiscent of archetypal figures from Greek and Egyptian mythology, yet fresh and contemporary. Otten’s beauty flies through the air, is imperfect, solidifies in time and is heartbreakingly vulnerable. In De Ketelfactory Otten lets centaurs, fauns and hermaphrodites, but also plain noses, ears and lips pertrude from the walls of the former milk factory, or she stages them on paper.
‘ONE YEAR IN TEN’ is Femmy Otten’s first large solo exhibition; guest curator is art critic Lucette ter Borg. All but a few works installed at De Ketelfactory are new. Amongst them, her largest wound-wooden sculpture so far.
Femmy Otten
Femmy Otten (Amsterdam, 1981) studied at HISK (Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten) in Gent and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. She won the Volkskrant Art Award in 2012 and painted the official portrait of King Willem-Alexander in 2014. She took part in a number of national and international group exhibitions. Her work is represented by Fons Welters Gallery in Amsterdam.