Residency artists and researchers Painting, drawing, printmaking Marianne Holm Hansen Visual artist Marianne Holm Hansen is a visual artist who works across media and method including writing/ text-based work, drawing, photography, collaboration and conversation. She explores how experience and knowledge is formed, communicated, embodied and/ or understood through organising structures, established methodologies, behaviours, habits and, in particular, language. She is currently considering how we give form to that which exists outside language. She has employed the notion of the void as hole, gap, pause as metaphor for communicating in situations where language falters or entirely fails. She sees the Saari Residence as a unique opportunity to approach her residency as a possibility for being in, and experiencing fully, the Void itself. “I’ll attempt to place myself in a position that is entirely open, including open to the potential that the impact of the residency may radically shift the direction of the project as well as my practice overall.”