bending the frame

Wendy Marijnissen is a documentary photographer from Antwerpen.
Intuition and personal interests have always played an important role in her work and lead Wendy to her subjects in an organic way.

She has been working for many years on the problems women face regarding childbirth and motherhood. In Pakistan she found the freedom to explore the traumatic loss of her own parents and her unfulfilled wish to become a mother herself and transform these personal stories into an intimate visual narrative.

Using children's drawings as a starting point, she explores her own archive of loss and tries to make new photographic connections within her archive, so new visual associations might arise.

In 2018 she published her book 'Always The Guest' and founded Bending The Frame vzw.
She is the curator of , an investigation into the medium of the slideshow with work by renowned photographers such as Sohrab Hura, Antoine d'Agata, Pieter ten Hoopen and Sébastien van Malleghem. In 2020, she released the zine ˜Come out and play'. She is a member of WomenPhotograph and twice contributed her work to .works ,a Belgium female identifying photographer fundraising initiative by

Vernissage on the 7th of March from 6 to 9 pm in attendance by all the photographers and a performance by dancer Amna Mawaz Khan.
Oude Beurs 39, 2000 Antwerpen

After that open until the 24th of March, Thursday to Sunday from 12 to 6pm.
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