Mathilde Jansen graduated from the Royal Academy, The Hague (KABK) in 2006, undertook residencies, exhibited her photography internationally and carried out commissions for media, companies and organizations, worked in Dar es Salaam and completed the postgraduate studies Education in Arts.
Her art practice seeks the universal value of natural resources and minerals to trace the complex relationship between people and the global economy. She aims to create new perspectives from which to examine social structures and the connections between the local and global, which form the basis of human attitudes, social positioning and intercultural communication. In her practice Jansen consciously interweaves market-driven ways of thinking with an integrated holistic vision of nature, teasing out the borders between the two. Using experiments in analogue photography, incorporating awe-inspiring constructions on location and manipulating medium format negatives, she creates a dynamic interplay between subject matter and representation, navigating areas as nature and ecology, consciousness and community. Her project represents this interaction between modernization, wilderness and consciousness
