Maartje Fliervoet / Emmeline de Mooij
28 Apr - 03 Jun 2006
MAARTJE FLIERVOET
EMMELINE DE MOOIJ
"Scape"
Maartje Fliervoet (1973) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Fliervoet works with the medium of photography. The starting point of her photographs is the idea that reality, as individuals experience it, is not universal. The photographs emphasise the person’s inner experience of reality.
For example, she worked for a long time on a series of couples who were lying in the park, embracing each other, and whose bodies merge to become a new, almost unrecognisable shape, separate from the outside world. Because the viewer cannot identify completely with the people who are represented, he or she can interpret the image in his or her own way.
Although photographs give the illusion that they reflect reality, Fliervoet would like to explore the limits of this medium in her photographs by increasingly concentrating on recording a more subjective image photographically. In her most recent series of photographs, most of which were made during a period of work in the Banff Centre in Canada, she reduces the visually identifiable element to a minimum. The photographs are greatly underexposed or overexposed. The individuals can hardly be distinguished from the shapes in nature, leaves or rocks. They are merely one shape amongst all the other shapes.
Emmeline de Mooij (1978) studied fashion at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From the very beginning of her study she was interested in the role of clothes and things in people’s lives; the interaction between taste, image and identity.
De Mooij makes sculptures, installations and photographs. In 2003 she won the International Selfware Style Competition with the installation Dressed Undressed. In De Mooij’s installations you enter a scene, or at least the remnants of a scene. Scattered piles of clothes, shoes, the absence of people, and the intimacy of the space evoke different associations.
In recent work she refers to the nomadic existence of people; primitive shelters, the rituals of native people, refugees, the homeless with plastic bags, beasts of burden, campers and tourists with rucksacks.
'We cannot live like animals. We aren’t resistant to the cold outside. We have no fleece. We are much too naked and are therefore condemned to hearth and home, surrounded by all sorts of clothes and things. We drag everything that could be useful into our lairs. We have to protect and strengthen our Self. We become closed up. All that luggage weighs on our shoulders like a burden. We can no longer move about freely and long for freedom and a lack of restraint.'
EMMELINE DE MOOIJ
"Scape"
Maartje Fliervoet (1973) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Fliervoet works with the medium of photography. The starting point of her photographs is the idea that reality, as individuals experience it, is not universal. The photographs emphasise the person’s inner experience of reality.
For example, she worked for a long time on a series of couples who were lying in the park, embracing each other, and whose bodies merge to become a new, almost unrecognisable shape, separate from the outside world. Because the viewer cannot identify completely with the people who are represented, he or she can interpret the image in his or her own way.
Although photographs give the illusion that they reflect reality, Fliervoet would like to explore the limits of this medium in her photographs by increasingly concentrating on recording a more subjective image photographically. In her most recent series of photographs, most of which were made during a period of work in the Banff Centre in Canada, she reduces the visually identifiable element to a minimum. The photographs are greatly underexposed or overexposed. The individuals can hardly be distinguished from the shapes in nature, leaves or rocks. They are merely one shape amongst all the other shapes.
Emmeline de Mooij (1978) studied fashion at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From the very beginning of her study she was interested in the role of clothes and things in people’s lives; the interaction between taste, image and identity.
De Mooij makes sculptures, installations and photographs. In 2003 she won the International Selfware Style Competition with the installation Dressed Undressed. In De Mooij’s installations you enter a scene, or at least the remnants of a scene. Scattered piles of clothes, shoes, the absence of people, and the intimacy of the space evoke different associations.
In recent work she refers to the nomadic existence of people; primitive shelters, the rituals of native people, refugees, the homeless with plastic bags, beasts of burden, campers and tourists with rucksacks.
'We cannot live like animals. We aren’t resistant to the cold outside. We have no fleece. We are much too naked and are therefore condemned to hearth and home, surrounded by all sorts of clothes and things. We drag everything that could be useful into our lairs. We have to protect and strengthen our Self. We become closed up. All that luggage weighs on our shoulders like a burden. We can no longer move about freely and long for freedom and a lack of restraint.'