Saskia Olde Wolbers (born 1971) is a Dutch video artist who lives and works in

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Background

Since the mid-1990s, Saskia Olde Wolbers has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events. Her intricate videos are driven by a combination of otherworldly imagery – meticulously handmade model sets – and the apparent inner monologue of the voiceover in the audio book-like soundtrack. The films are shot underwater, miniature sets dipped in paint to create unstable imagery that abstractly illustrates the narrator's thought process. In her most recent works, the music soundtrack has been composed by

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. She has exhibited widely since 1998. Solo shows include: ''A Shot In The Dark'' at

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, 2011; Goetz Collection, 2010; Mori Art Museum Tokyo, 2008; ''The Falling Eye'' at

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Amsterdam, 2006; and

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, London, 2003. In 2014 she created an audio installation at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton, London, the house in which

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lodged briefly in 1873–74. Author and curator Phillip Monk describes in his book The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files, "Olde Wolbers not only joins fictional and documentary elements in her scripts, she links them to series of images, themselves fabricated and quite fantastic in their nature." In 2010, Olde Wolbers lectured for the

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. She is a lecturer at Goldsmiths University.

Awards and prizes

Olde Wolbers has won the Baloise Prize (2003) and the

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Prize (2004).Art News Saskia Olde Wolbers at Mori Art Museum Tokyo
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References

External links

Saskia Olde Wolbers websiteYes, these Eyes are the Windows an Artangel commission Contemporary Art SocietyArtreview Saskia Olde Wolbers ArtangelDoes a house in Brixton hold the key to Vincent van Gogh?These walls had ears by Waldemar JanuszczakSaskia Olde Wolbers Q & A with Tyler Green''Deadline'' at Maureen Paley''The Falling Eye'' at the Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamFishing Line Never Looked So Good NY arts MagazineFilm art at the South London Gallery, BBC – collective

Saskia Olde Wolbers wins Becks FuturesMarcus Verhagen, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Frieze, Nov–Dec 2004Barry Schwabsky, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Tate Britain – London, ArtForum, Nov 2003Adrian Searle, ''Say it with flytraps'', The Guardian, May 24, 2005
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Background

Awards and prizes

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