Mara Liem
Mara Liem / 林留白 (1980) was born and raised in Amsterdam, and is of Chinese, Indonesian, as well as Dutch heritage. She lived in Finland and Iceland for a significant time and graduated at the Academie van Kunst en Vormgeving (now: AKV| Sint Joost) in Den Bosch in 2007.
Like Mara herself, her work is a fusion of cultures, often with Eastern perspectives and Western subject matter. It seems to exist in a strange, distorted reality, where intimacy, secrets and fable are key. Mara loves to play with appearance and concealment and uses this as a means to enchant those who behold it.
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