DRIFT Dutch

They combine the organic physicality of plastic sculptures with the technical affinity of learning machines and balance the fine line between popular beauty and meaningful individuality: Dutch artist duo Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded Studio DRIFT in 2007. With a multidisciplinary team of over 60 members, they create impressive sculptures, installations and performances that blur the boundaries between art and technology. Their work "Fragile Future" makes this interdisciplinary fusion conceivably recognizable: a tiled, cubist scaffolding structure combines real dandelion seeds, picked by hand and connected seed by seed to an LED, with three-dimensional bronze electrical circuits. The result is a critical and at the same time utopian vision of our earth, in which nature and technology form an alliance, but at the same time the question is raised: When did the progress of technology overtake the evolution of nature?
DRIFT's works are aesthetically impressive and profound. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including in prestigious institutions such as the Biennale di Venezia, the Stedelijk Museum, Met Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her works are represented in the most prestigious art collections in the world: LACMA, Rijksmuseum, SFMOMA, among others.