Artist's statement: WEB site: Pieter Laurens Mol's work manifests great conceptual complexity and holds multiple layers of perception, interpretation and meaning. Mol's oeuvre discourages classification; he does not favour a single style or medium. The artist often compares himself to an alchemist whose mysterious practices evolve into emotionally charged and visually stimulating experiments. In fact, his diverse oeuvre encompasses and frequently combines photography, film, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Fascination with the relativity of time, possibilities of manipulating space and scale, intense interest in the past, are all continuously present in Mol's creative universe as well as sensitivity to the importance of chance and accident in the artistic process, and inventiveness within limited visual parameters. A special emphasis on the Dutch heritage is another dominant feature. A sense of poetry and a fair measure of melancholy always underlie his work. Though never forgetting to put things into perspective, as an artist he intensely battles against pride and failure, themes he often treats with humour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.