WTF is KC

KIMBERLY CLARK IS AN ARTISTGROUP CONSISTING OF ELLEMIEKE SCHOENMAKER,
JOSEPHA DE JONG AND IRIS VAN DONGEN.


Kimberly Clark plays with her own emotions… In a hysterical way the artist’s collective uses clichés surrounding them: sex, party, booze, violence,
art, mythology, poetry…
Kimberly Clark mixes all these ingredients to slick installations, in which they express their love-hate relationship with the world they live in. It’s 'Art with pleasure' created with passion.

Kimberly Clark is the name of the artist collective consisting of three female artists: Josepha de Jong, Ellemieke Schoenmaker and Iris van Dongen. Many of the sculptures they make are inspired by ‘nocturnal escapades’ of the women in the streets of Rotterdam, recorded on photographs. The work they are making right now for an exhibition in TENT Rotterdam, for example, with the working title 'crusade, Rotterdam', is based on two women climbing to the top of a heap of construction waste lying in the street. One of the women is carrying a piece of beam, the other one iron
curtain rails. The composition of the women is that of a crucifix. A combination of trash, abundance and devotion.

The art works consist mainly of 3 dimensional ‘human figures’ combined with ready-made objects. Kimberly Clark wants the works to express rawness through the mains of humor. In a way you could say the installations are autobiographical. At least the
artists can identify with the subjects they chose. That explains why the collective often takes ‘the woman’ as their point of departure. They contradiction between the beauty of women and the rawness of the subject creates vulnerability but at the same time female heroine and power.

Kimberly will perform for you:

-'Destroy Athens' Athens Biennale (EL) sept. '07
- CODE (free code magazine) Bruxelles (BE)
(www.codemagazine.be) mei
-'Risky business', Motel Mozaiek, TENT, Rotterdam (NL)