Mirjam Buerer (Amsterdam, 1959)
Mirjam Bürer collects impressions and seeds of local crops on her travels, especially those that originate there. In Central Asia in particular, she is concerned with the great variety of crops that have been developed by farmers over the centuries and are now in danger of extinction due to a limited number of genetically uniform modern varieties. She is concerned with the loss of the genetic diversity of crops and the associated local knowledge at the expense of the imposed modern crops, for which the local farmers even have to pay.
The ordering, choosing hand is a recurring element in her work and can be seen as a sensual sensitivity with which her work must be viewed.
Buerer studied pattern and textile design at the art academy Utrecht. She derives her vocabulary from nature patterns and repetitions with small changes to the relationship between man and his ecological environment.
