Linda Molenaar is a visual storyteller. Her sculptures and performances arise from carefully prepared concepts and draw on motifs that appeal to us because they are recognizable and natural. She researches and imagines the relationships between humans and the animals that live in and with us. In her view of life, an immeasurable diversity of other organisms lives within humans, animal, vegetables and minerals.
Her characters, depicted in performance and sculpture, form a lovingly presented gallery of hybrid beings, 'co-inhabitants' with whom we can consider whether or not to enter into a relationship. As an artist, Molenaar wants her creations to infect us. So that we and they strengthen each other, or: exchange knowledge and experience, or: merge into each other, in a shared biotope.
Her entire oeuvre can be read against the background of global climate change, which threatens the survival of many species. Molenaar's art reminds us that the history of the human species is relative, embedded in geological time. A deep time in which the evolution of life takes place.