Autonomous work

States

Not a style. Not a genre. More a condition an image can arrive in.

About States

States brings together paintings, drawings, photographs, objects and details that often develop without a fixed endpoint. Some are raw or childlike, others erotic, aggressive, tender, absurd or almost silent. Some may look unfinished and still be complete.

I do not want to force the same explanation onto all of them afterwards. A work can remain contradictory. A detail can tell a different story from the whole. A face can look frightened and tender at the same time.

The important thing is simple: something has to happen.

01 / State

AI Heijn

A drawn story about profiling and different prices for the same product.

02 / State

Cameras in the Street

A growing photographic field archive of cameras in public space.

03 / State

Image Noise

Self-images in which light, framing, colour and distortion each create another state.

04 / State

MICE

Computer mice returned to animal form, with bodies and characters of their own.