Over the past few years Dutch artist Marleen Sleeuwits has photographed interiors encountered in random places: the dead corners of office buildings, waiting rooms in airports or emty hotel corridors. They are spaces that lack a connection with the outside world, so it is unclear what their function is, where they are and what time of day they were photographed. They almost appear to be situated beyond consciousness. The feeling of enstrangement and disonnection is at the heart of Sleeuwits' work Here lies a paradox: the spaces that catch Sleeuwits' attention are in some sense non-spaces. Lacking a clear function or any reference to the outside world, they are in the end nothing but spaces. The paradox is evident to anyone looking at the images; Sleeuwits tries to capture the experience of being disconnected from a physical space by almost inviting the viewer to step inside the picture and relate physically to what is portrayed there. Print size and sharpness are therefore of essential importance. In Interiors she plays an intricate an d complex game with scale, perception, and the tension between reality and illusion.