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2016/2021, 8 images
A naive series of photos. Mixture of bathrooms, water and close-up portraits thinking about 'The Birth of Venus'.
The Primordium series investigates relation to the past, through selfrepresentation and the distant gaze looking on, between a Venus that is being looked at, and a Venus that is creating it's own image.
Here, the artist tries to understand the connection between womanhood and water in art history, while being fully aware of his own outsider male gaze. Brewing since Botticelli presented the birth of Venus and Da Vinci presented Mona Lisa's smile, the womanfigure in art history has been presented as an ideal figure, with Venus being the keyfigure and epitome of the superwoman - Now in a digital age, women are able to present themselves through social media, creating their own personified Venus.
2018/2022, 23 images
All the mold is me
The Reticent series acts as an examination of uncertainty. The uncertain paths of a young individual who does not possess the knowledge nor the capability of feeling enough to carve his own way into the future.
Through growing up in a digital world during his youth, the desire to feel, the desire to physically experience becomes a wish. After a long amount of absense from the physical world has been established, personal growth becomes hindered. The individual becomes static, resistant to time, and does not continue to push forward into his own character. Sooner than later, these hounds of neglect come back to bite him. He loses himself, his future, his desires. Until everything crashes and his world shatters. After this series, a world of re-building is his own. Youth as he knew it will forever have ended.
2021, 5 images
Do you want me?
Voidx2 is a small, miniscule oath to longing and belonging. Something that never existed at all.