A line of stones
Dürst Britt & Mayhew•Apr 18, 2025 — Jun 08, 2025
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Dürst Britt & Mayhew is proud to present ‘A Line of Stones’ by Maja Klaassens. After her presentation in the Frontspace in 2022 this is the first exhibition since the gallery started representing her in 2024.
In her new body of work, Maja Klaassens explores the function of editing in literature and film, and the ways it influences our perception of the world around us. Drawing from numerous works of fiction, the exhibition posits the everyday as a stage upon which fragmented and incomplete narratives generate suspense.
Focussing on the ways domestic and natural environments are often written in opposition to one another, neutralizing and shaping both, Maja Klaassens’ works consider the traces which collapse these thresholds. A simple impulse like pocketing a stone at the beach can expand in all directions: repeatedly re-written, re-made, and re-framed by the artist in a variety of mediums, each adjustment revealing layers of underlying...More
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A line of stones
Dürst Britt & Mayhew•Apr 18, 2025 — Jun 08, 2025
Press Release
Dürst Britt & Mayhew is proud to present ‘A Line of Stones’ by Maja Klaassens. After her presentation in the Frontspace in 2022 this is the first exhibition since the gallery started representing her in 2024.
In her new body of work, Maja Klaassens explores the function of editing in literature and film, and the ways it influences our perception of the world around us. Drawing from numerous works of fiction, the exhibition posits the everyday as a stage upon which fragmented and incomplete narratives generate suspense.
Focussing on the ways domestic and natural environments are often written in opposition to one another, neutralizing and shaping both, Maja Klaassens’ works consider the traces which collapse these thresholds. A simple impulse like pocketing a stone at the beach can expand in all directions: repeatedly re-written, re-made, and re-framed by the artist in a variety of mediums, each adjustment revealing layers of underlying...More