{"id":49907,"date":"2017-02-07T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/?p=49907"},"modified":"2017-02-07T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:42:33","slug":"laura-and-marte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/laura-and-marte\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura and Marte"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1999\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML3.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML3.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML3-1280x1279.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML3-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"covertitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/laura-and-marte\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Laura and Marte<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n#content .row {margin:10% 0 0 0;max-width:100%}\n#cover {\nbackground-color: white;\nposition:relative;\nmargin: 10% 20%;\ntext-align:center;\n}\n#covertitle {\nposition: absolute;font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01',helvetica,sans-serif;\nbottom: 45%;\nwidth: 100%;\ncolor: white;\nfont-size: 2rem;\nfont-weight:400;\n}\n#covertitle a {color:white;}\n.neue {font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01';}\n.didot {font-family: 'Linotype Didot W01';}\n#introbox,#footerbox {max-width:1280px;margin:auto;clear:both;font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01',helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-align:center;}\n#introtxtjustify {text-align:justify;max-width:900px;margin:auto;padding: 90px 10px 0 10px;}\n#introtxtjustify p {margin-bottom: 60px;text-align:justify;}\n#introtitle {text-align:center;width:90%; font-size:1.5rem;margin:90px auto;font-weight:400;}\n#introtitle a {color:black;}\n#introcredits {font-size:.85rem;;max-width:800px;margin:5% auto 0 auto;}\n#portrait,.center img,#portrait img {width: 100% !important;}\n.center img {max-width:1280px !important;}\n.center,#portrait{text-align:center;}\n.center img,#portrait img {margin: auto !important;}\n.credits {\nmargin: 0 auto;\nfont-size:.65rem;\nfont-family: \"Neue Haas Unica W01\",\"Helvetica Neue\",Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\ntext-align:center;\nfont-weight: 200;\n}\n.interviewtxt {font-weight:300;}\n.center p {margin:0;}\n.framedpic,.centerwithmargin{width:85%;margin:0;}\n.smallerpic {width:90%;margin:5% 5%;}\n.tinypic {width:45%;margin:5% 27% 0 27%;}\n.supertinypic {width:30%;margin:5% 30% 0 30%;}\n.supertinypicv {width:20%;margin:5% 40% 0 40%;}\n.separ {border:1px solid white;clear:both;margin:60px;}\n<\/style>\n<link type=\"text\/css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/\/fast.fonts.net\/cssapi\/1ee7eecc-8318-40d7-9f60-2840770611c0.css\"\/>\n<div class=\"txtdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 columns\">\n<div id=\"introbox\">\n<div class=\"introtitle\">\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/laura-and-marte\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Laura and Marte<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"introtxtjustify\">\n<p>More often than not the capacity to create begins as a curiosity which  becomes habit, in turn to routine. That routine eventually  becomes something indivisible.  Laura Kampman and Marte Mei van Haaster, both recognizable citizen of the modeling industry\u2013often casted to be the art itself\u2013found that their means of expression could go beyond a single function or role. Their own act of expression was indivisible. Laura and Marte Mei made available their respective gifts as artists and as models for an intimate and collaborative project for Models.com. They abstracted and blurred roles and mediums\u2013just as the images themselves: artistic, personal and painterly. Alone in a studio clothed all in Marni as an ode to its recently resigned designer, Consuelo Castiglioni, they created something completely intimate. See the special story below, followed by a conversation between the two artists.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"introcredits\">\n<p>\t\tPhotos by <a href='\/\/models.com\/models\/laura-kampman'>Laura Kampman<\/a> and <a href='\/\/models.com\/models\/marte-mei-van-haaster'>Marte Mei van Haaster<\/a> for Models.com<\/p>\n<p>You can find Laura\u2019s work on her website and instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakampman.com\">www.laurakampman.com<\/a> @<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/laurakampman\">laurakampman<\/a>.<br \/>\nMarte primarily works together with her husband in the formation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxmei.nl\">MAX\/MEI<\/a> making set-design as art-works, you can also follow her on instagram at @<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/martemei\">martemei<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits credbottom\">All clothes by <a href='\/\/models.com\/client\/marni'>Marni<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row double\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 columns\">&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-8 columns\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML.jpg\" class=\"smallerpic\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 columns center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML10.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML10.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML10-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML10-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-12 columns center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML15.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML15.jpg 2000w, 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width=\"2000\" height=\"1419\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML8.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML8.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML8-1280x908.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML8-200x142.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row double\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-9 columns\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML9-1.jpg\" class=\"smallerpic\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-3 columns\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-12 columns center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1120\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML14-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML14-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML14-1-1280x717.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML14-1-200x112.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-9 end columns\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML4-1.jpg\" class=\"supertinypicv\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 columns center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML12.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML12.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML12-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML12-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-3 columns\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-9 columns\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML7-1.jpg\" class=\"smallerpic\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-9 columns\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2017\/02\/ML2.jpg\" class=\"smallerpic\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-3 columns\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-8 small-offset-2 medium-6 medium-offset-3 columns end interviewtxt\">\n<p>MARTE TO LAURA<\/p>\n<p>M: Being a model, you are used as an element in another persons vision of aesthetics, Do you feel like this triggered you to develop your own aesthetic language, or did you always feel triggered to make images? <\/p>\n<p>L: Before I started modeling I was already engaged in image-making. By taking part in many aesthetic visions of others, I\u2019ve been able to develop my own creative practice more rapidly. <\/p>\n<p>M: You normally work alone, and with natural settings and lighting. How did it feel to collaborate for this project, and how do you feel about the fact the situation was created beforehand? <\/p>\n<p>L: It was very different than what I\u2019m used to. My work normally derives in a spontaneous way, without thinking, out of an urge to create. With our project I had to adapt to a totally different working strategy. There was a concept I had to keep in the back of my mind and a partner I had to communicate to. I wasn\u2019t able to turn into the quiet hermit I normally become while shooting. I became very aware of my own actions in the creative process, which was an informative experience. <\/p>\n<p>M: You often use yourself as a canvas for your own imagination, and for your work it&#8217;s the other way around. Can you describe why you feel self-portraits suit your particular voice as an artist?  <\/p>\n<p>L: For me, my self-portraits are the result of a kind of therapeutic act. When I set up my camera for a self-portrait I feel fully free to translate my inner imagination into an image. I feel totally safe to express whatever is inside me. The images created from that pure state of being are like teachers to me. They are able to show me things about myself I wasn\u2019t aware of yet. Over the years, taking self-portraits has become more of a self-study. It\u2019s a stage where I have absolute autonomous freedom in contrast to the stages of my modeling work. <\/p>\n<p>M: We&#8217;ve had conversations about combining art and modeling within our lives. What are the things that motivate you most to keep on working as a model? Instead of committing solemnly to the art-life. <\/p>\n<p>L: Modeling brings me into surprising situations, meeting inspirational people and it gives the opportunity to see so many different places. Besides that it\u2019s obviously a pleasant financial supplement to my art practice. An example of a wonderful surprise I had last week: I flew out to London for a modeling job. When I landed I found out that an exhibition had just opened around the corner of my hotel including one of my favorite photographers. I got to see it before I went to my job. Perfect timing, I was just in need of some inspiration because I had to get my own photos framed for the very first time the coming week.  <\/p>\n<p>M: What other things are you working on now and what are you dreaming of making in the year to come? <\/p>\n<p>L: Right now I\u2019m finishing a self-portrait story I got to shoot with my little brother for Dutch Vogue Men and I\u2019m preparing for an exhibition I will be part in Rotterdam next month. This all came to me as a surprise\u2026 I just hope to keep on finding inspiration, keep on making work and remain open for surprises (and swim in the ocean more frequently).<\/p>\n<p>LAURA TO MARTE  <\/p>\n<p>L : After years of being friends and colleagues, this was the first time we collaborated. What have you gained from this experience? And was it different from your expectations? <\/p>\n<p>M: It was very different from the shoots or art projects I\u2019m used too. On set I usually try to be very receptive of people\u2019s energy and intentions to act to their needs. When making art I take a more active position and improvise shamelessly. When our two worlds met it was quite a search of respecting each others boundaries whilst staying true to our own needs, but I feel like by doing so we\u2019ve gained more collectively. Which was a very fulfilling feeling. To work so together so intimately, between the borders of model and artist, I feel like the images express this vulnerability. <\/p>\n<p>L: Your graduation work was a landscape recreated from a landscape you\u2019d seen in California, after you were flown in by Louis Vuitton for their cruise show. Can you tell me about similar  experiences where your modeling career has inspired or influenced your artistic work?<\/p>\n<p>M: Working as a model for Viviane Sassen and Juegen Teller have from day one trigged me to become a set designer next to an installation artist. The way they photograph this surreal reality within a normal space or landscape, making whats actually there look odd and sometimes even graphically abstract, really trigged me to think how I could invite such images to be created. I\u2019ve been working with Vivianne for a little over a year now and I think every job I&#8217;ve done since, feeds me with inspiration which I can translate into set ideas. Actually, the older I become the more I enjoy my job. I find the people I work with more inspiring and learn to me more open towards them. It\u2019s probably because I\u2019m getting stronger and more secure about my personal situation that I\u2019m no longer afraid to open up to new people on set. It makes everything all the more exciting and closer to the feeling of a friend group creating, similar to what we experienced. <\/p>\n<p>L: Do you feel like always having to be in perfect shape psychically and mentally, always being available and &#8216;ready to go\u2019 for your job influences you as an artist? <\/p>\n<p>M: Definitely. The samurai say you can only be exceptionally good at one thing at the time, and I&#8217;ve experienced this first hand. It\u2019s a strange dynamic, modeling definitely feeds my creativity, but it has also retained me from depth within my process. Making and writing about art just takes time and when modeling it only leaves certain time frames to create, which can be really annoying. Especially the fact that even in that fame there is a constantly the possibility to be called away for a really special job. It\u2019s hard to really surrender and make without expectations, knowing you might not have tomorrow to work on it again. <\/p>\n<p>L :  All the work you&#8217;ve made with MAX\/MEI so far seems to be about humans interrupting and de-constructing nature. How do you feel that relates to our work as a model?<\/p>\n<p>M: I think the origin comes from the fact I was brought up in a country with very little real nature. In the Netherlands all the nature is artificially placed, planned and protected. I believe traveling made me realise this because it gave me the opportunity to see nature elsewhere. To compare one environment to the next at vast speed and to really become aware of my surroundings and what effects they had on me. Something I might have never found interesting if I\u2019d lived here all my life. <\/p>\n<p>L : What other things are you working on now?<\/p>\n<p>M: This week I\u2019m building a film-set for a dear friend of mine, Bea1991, and after that I\u2019ll be focusing on our next MAX\/MEI museum exhibit. Opening in the beginning of April in the Kranenborg museum in Bergen, Holland. Meaning I\u2019ll have to work on that up until shows and immediately after, which will most likely eat up all my energy so\u2026 I\u2019ll also spend as much time in nature as possible, I\u2019ve come to realise that this is the best way for me to de-stress and get back on track with my soul. Charge my battery and digest the busy weeks that just passed.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separ\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura and Marte as model and artist in an intimate collaboration for Models.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,2129,99,1538],"tags":[897,1863,1369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49907"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50057,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49907\/revisions\/50057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}