Marian Verkerk

Marian Verkerk is a visual artist whose work explores memory, time, and impermanence through experimental photographic processes, combining cyanotype, lumen prints, chemograms, and hybrid analogue–digital techniques.
From: Friesland, the Netherlands
Shows: Cyanotypes, duotones and tri colour, and Lumen prints

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Marian Verkerk is a visual artist working with experimental photographic processes that challenge the stability of the image. Combining cyanotype, lumen printing, chemograms, Van Dyke brown, and hybrid analogue–digital approaches, my work investigates how landscapes, portraits, and everyday objects dissolve under the influence of time and chemical change. The practice explores memory as a shifting field of traces rather than fixed representations, creating images that exist between material presence and disappearance.

In a former life she has studied philosophy and for the last 25 years she was Full Professor in Ethics at the University of Groningen. From 2008 -2010 and 2012-2014 she was a student at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. After that she continued to receive coaching from teachers of the academy for several years.

Marian Verkerk about her lumen prints:

“I create lumen prints by placing a self-made negative directly onto expired analogue photo paper (Fomabrom C111 Glossy, 7 × 9.5 inches). I exposed it in direct sunlight for 1–2 hours, which produced a blueish image. Without fixing the print, I scanned it immediately to preserve the unfixed colours, making only slight adjustments to contrast and brightness because of its soft, delicate tones. Unlike many lumen prints made with objects, these were created solely using a negative.”

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