In By Wansleeben, Sissel Marie Tonn shows a film that stems from her fascination with microplastics and the influence they have on our bodies and on our environment. This film emerges from a real event: the spilling of 349 containers into the North Sea by the containership MSC Zoe near the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands in 2019, and the consequent release of millions of kilos of plastic waste into the environment. Would we conceive of this event differently if it had a direct immunological impact on our bodies?

Sissel Marie Tonn is a Danish artist based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Sissel has a bachelor in Film and Media studies from University of Copenhagen. She completed a master in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2015. In 2016 she was the recipient of the Theodora Niemeijer prize for emerging female artists, resulting in her first solo show at the Eye in Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. She was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in 2017 – 2018. In 2019 she received the talent development grant from Stimuleringsfonds NL. Her work is frequently exhibited in The Netherlands and internationally, most recently in Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), Ballroom Marfa (2018) and Kikk Festival in Namur (2019).