MARINA HEUVELMAN YAMAGUCHI [NL]
Marina Heuvelman Yamaguchi works between the felt and the made. Born in Tokyo, based in The Hague, their practice moves across sculpture, installation, and public space; drawn always toward the sensory: color, texture, rhythm, volume, movement.
Their work operates below the cognitive. Playful structures invite the body in before the mind arrives. Familiar materials are reclaimed, revitalized, made peculiar again. Environments respond to scale, to people, to place.
They believe in reciprocity: between object and viewer, between artist and community, between what is designed and what is simply experienced.
Marina about their work: “I am drawn to art that demands physical presence. Where the body is not a vessel carrying the mind into a space, but the primary instrument of experience itself. Proprioception, the felt sense of one’s own body in space, is for me inseparable from how art is received and understood.
I am increasingly interested in the growing recognition that we perceive and express ourselves in fundamentally different ways, that sensory processing is not uniform, and that conditioned norms of engagement often exclude rather than invite. My own practice is shaped by this awareness. Bodily posture, movement, and physical orientation are integral to how I both make and experience art and music.
Through my work I aim to create conditions where kinesthetic engagement is not incidental but central; where moving, leaning, sitting low or high, alone or together, becomes a way of understanding.”