SCARECROWS

During FASHIONCLASH Festival the work Scarecrows by Christa van der Meer is on display in the garden of Marres. Her work is a visual investigation into the relationship between people and objects. A recurring theme is the anthropomorphic: attributing human characteristics to non-human beings and objects.

Van der Meer is interested in scarecrows; a figure that is shaped by our discarded material and represents a human being. We use them not because birds actually find scarecrows scary, but because we think birds find them scary. Van der Meer is intrigued by how scarecrows look like us, but at the same time are some kind of monstrous variant of us.


Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98
Maastricht (NL)

This project is supported by Creative Fund NL.