Marna is a visual artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her work varies from street photograph, studio portraits, videos, drawing, painting and collages.
With her images, Marna hands over the experience of constantly having to solve puzzles to get a grip, showing human action and behavior to be confusing. She uses photographic means as color, point of view and composition in a way that unimportant details become important and positioning becomes difficult. Every image raises questions, there is little guidance or certainty. They leave you with the feeling of being an observer and outsider.
Marjanne van Helvert is a designer, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam. Her focus is on the injustices that permeate the fashion and design world, and the possibilities of creating more just...
Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...
During this roundtable, we talked about Mediamatic's open call for project proposals, 'Penny for your Thoughts' . What thoughts do the neurodiverse artists around the table have about the application...
Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...
One of the portraits from Marna Slappendel's portrait series ' Aan mij is niets te zien ', for which she photographed women who received an autism diagnosis during adulthood.
Street photography to capture the strangeness of human behaviour
Autistic women who are diagnosed later in life are sometimes called “chameleons“, because they learn to adapt to mask and disguise themselves to fit into various social situations. To play with this...
In her street photography, Marna Slappendel plays with angles and perspectives to inspire confusion in the viewer.