Tableaux
The Tableaux series (2015) was conceived as a quest for the simple beauty of attributes and objects stripped of their functionality.
With the aid of the digital technique of photo-stacking and presented in large format photographical prints, in this project I moved away from adopted conceptual ideas and instead I focused my senses on the quality of photographic (hyper-) realism.
The objects on show refer to the idiosyncratic aesthetics that reflect from scientific, often medical and anthropological artifacts that I have privately collected or that I found in the archives of natural-historical institutions and museums such as Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Arriving from the keenly staged scenes produced from such objects a certain authentic yet mysterious spectacle is spread out before the viewer.
This exhibition has ultimately become a statement about observing; a pure, phenomenological experience of looking at things with naive curiosity. As in earlier work, there is a reflection on a mythical parallel universe with fairytale and realistic features. However, removed from their initial function, the objects can now be studied for what they essentially are, in all their peculiarity.
The Tableaux series (2015) was conceived as a quest for the simple beauty of attributes and objects stripped of their functionality.
With the aid of the digital technique of photo-stacking and presented in large format photographical prints, in this project I moved away from adopted conceptual ideas and instead I focused my senses on the quality of photographic (hyper-) realism.
The objects on show refer to the idiosyncratic aesthetics that reflect from scientific, often medical and anthropological artifacts that I have privately collected or that I found in the archives of natural-historical institutions and museums such as Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Arriving from the keenly staged scenes produced from such objects a certain authentic yet mysterious spectacle is spread out before the viewer.
This exhibition has ultimately become a statement about observing; a pure, phenomenological experience of looking at things with naive curiosity. As in earlier work, there is a reflection on a mythical parallel universe with fairytale and realistic features. However, removed from their initial function, the objects can now be studied for what they essentially are, in all their peculiarity.