Anja Sijben

My work is a way of drawing around the construction of an ideal man and cycling and surfing at the same time around the cliché of the Ideal Man in an ironically and humorous way. There are two approaches: one is ‘mechanical’-like drawings, that represent the construction of something and offer a way to explore the thoughts and feelings of the artist’s mind about the theme, and at the same time to relate to it. The other is ideas of certain aspects that I try to change and turn into another way of thinking e.g. the ‘muscle-drawings’, using the muscles as a symbol for male physical power and transferring them into other meanings by a desired grade of abstraction. As you can see, nothing is ideal, but for now…

wishful thinking