ARTIST STATEMENT, BIO & CV
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art photography is a powerful medium that allows me to express emotions, stories and complex thoughts. I focus on a recurring theme in my work: the battle against the lingering trauma from youth, represented by images of girls and young women, sometimes combined with still lifes. With the final works I hope to encourage the viewer to notice such children around them, reflect upon their own challenges and maybe even find some comfort in my work.
In my work I look at the world through the eyes of that little girl I once was, who stepped into the world full of love, trust and passion.
I try not to be hindered by rules. Who made up the rules anyway? I work as intuïtively and as purely as possible, using my own photography.
The recurring images are given additional layers until I have completed the story of that moment in time. This way, photography and art helped in a process of healing. With every step, the memories change and get softer. It is an ongoing process.
I think my style is, unintentionally, recognizable. Sometimes even childishly simple, while the added layers tell the stories that are invisible secrets in real life. The work is created without a preconceived plan, it is almost a ‘therapeutic must’ and that is why each work stands alone, but ultimately together they are telling one or many stories.
Some ‘symbols’ and materials regularly return, such as crowns, clowns, halo’s (from Catholic upbringing and superiority of the father), pieces of lace (the beauty and kindness of my mother), masks (hide behind theater and drama) and circles that represent emotions for me.
With love,
Corina