Le temps [Time]

Marta Nijhuis is a transmedia Italian-Dutch artist, lecturer, and author, whose eclectic plastic work is intertwined with a rich philosophical research. A Ph.D. in Aesthetics, she focuses her practice on the philosophical topic of identity. The artist questions the subject of identity via a threefold process: the observation of Nature, the prism of cultural memory, and the elaboration of a personal ”post-digital” technical process consisting, as she explains, ”in oxymoronically returning forward to the hand as the supreme technology,” whose slowness dialogues with the fast perceptual mutations the digital world insinuates in our bodily identities. In the past fifteen years she has been regularly collaborating as a Lecturer with the Jean Moulin University of Lyon, EAC Lyon and, more recently, Shanghai University. Her work has been displayed in art galleries and cultural centres both in Europe and the US.