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Bibi Smit (Son en Breugel, Netherlands, 1965) is a contemporary artist working across sculpture and installation, examining the relationship between movement, time and nature. Her practice is grounded in sustained material‑based research rooted in glassblowing, which often serves as the point of departure for both her sculptural works and immersive installations incorporating video and sound. She investigates tensions between softness and strength, fragility and weight, presence and absence, and interplay between suspension of time and acceleration, contributing to contemporary explorations of temporality and material behaviour.
Smit’s process combines nature observations, newspaper clippings, and studio experimentation including colour studies. Across her work, she studies transformation, natural cycles, temporality and materiality. Recent series such as Maru Mori and Morii focus on botanical forms at the point of transition, using shifts in shape and colour to register processes of growth to decline. She traces how flowers and fruits change shape and colour as they dry, bend, or collapse, using these transitions to reflect on cycles of transformation in nature. Her work is held in public collections including the Mauritshuis Museum (NL), the Nationaal Glasmuseum (NL), and the Glasmuseum Lette – Alter Hof Herding (DE). Smit lives and works in the Netherlands. |