Beeldend kunstenaar Inge van der Ven (1973) studeerde tekenen en schilderen aan de Rietveld Academie, woont en werkt in Amsterdam (NL) en Arles (FR). My work explores the relationship between interior and exterior, employing a wide range of materials and media. It includes drawings, paintings, collages, artefacts, objects and installations. Currently I work a lot with ceramics. There is an intuitive approach which resonates femininity, intimacy and fragility. My art is related to the concept of skin and its different meanings: protection, tactility, sensation, connection… Skin as a container, another key word in my approach, it is flexible, fragile, permeable and an interface between inside and outside. I see bodies as houses and houses as bodies (a second skin), they are symbiotically related. From my daily environment I collect seemingly useless materials or old objects to give them a second life in my work. This close relation my work has with the body and the house by using materials and objects of my daily home environment is connected to questions I ask myself around the topic of grounding.