Maxime Ansiau

Maxime Ansiau is a French artist living in the Netherlands, who has spent the last 25 years searching for objects, collecting materials in collections, which in a period of time have a significant meaning until becoming a new work. The primary relationship of collecting, housing and thinking about objects can last from two to ten years until the problem posed in storing them, requires a conceptualized solution for their reuse.
"I always start with a collection of something. It could be a plastic toy, a sticker, or a stack of books or an old sink. Then once you have a bunch of things you have a problem on your hands, because you have to do something from it."

His work is process-driven, time-consuming and requires patient patience to create a modernized version of past values that support etiquette and respect for materials, that he believes are not represented with the same depth in the digital world.
His work is a process that helps him make sense of the world in form and each work can be either a comfort, representing an era of simplicity or a question to remind us of the cost of our actions.