Mirte van Laarhoven develops artistic landscape architecture, with a focus on self-sustaining physical environments, creating biotopes and enriching the human experience. She uses her work to share knowledge about our changing physical environment in a way that is moving and surprising.
Mirte van Laarhoven develops artistic landscape architecture, with a focus on self-sustaining physical environments, creating biotopes and enriching the human experience. She uses her work to share knowledge about our changing physical environment in a way that is moving and surprising. The two tapestries she developed this year in the TextielLab, ‘Wetland Woods’ and ‘Dunescape Forest’, are part of the series Reflective Landscapes, which aims to bring the outside world of the forest inside. The tapestries depict two mystical forest landscapes at night, in which unexpected details suddenly appear when illuminated with a torch. A lot of black was used to create the dark, light-absorbing images. But the fabrics also incorporate 95 different colours. A nuanced range of shiny and reflective yarns – which glow when illuminated – brings to life the experience of a forest at night. The series pays tribute to the wonders of the arboreal world, which remains a mysterious place despite recent advances in our knowledge. The tapestries were shown during the IJsselbiennale from mid-June to mid-September, in the group exhibition in the Centrale Harculo near Zwolle
