Still Life Week: Sander Vos

This week we’re that includes Still Life initiatives, and on Friday we end with a 4-part Exhibition on Still Lifes!

I don’t recall the place I first encountered Sander Vos’ nonetheless life photographs (AIPAD?), however I do keep in mind stopping in my tracks. There was one thing instantly compelling about them that resisted a passing look   His pictures have hints of Georgio Morandi’s delicate work, MC Escher’s advanced illustrations, and Man Ray’s Surrealist experiments, but they in the end really feel completely their very own.

Vos’ pictures ask viewers to decelerate, look carefully, and decipher the relationships between objects, gentle, shadow and area.  In as we speak’s image-saturated world, creating photographs that invite sustained consideration is not any small feat.

 Vos shares his course of here.

In Between the Shadows

My work is an investigation into the mechanics of notion. I assemble layered photographic photographs designed to disrupt “automated seeing,” the best way our brains rapidly categorize and dismiss the world round us. By utilizing fragmentation, collage, and shifting views, I rework acquainted topics into preparations that really feel each alien and recognizable.I’m within the second the viewer is compelled to pause, search, and reassemble that means. In collection comparable to Interpolation and In Between the Shadows, I deal with images not as a report of the world, however as a software for revealing how we actively construct our personal actuality. In these works, gentle, shadow, and destructive area act as catalysts to interrupt behavior and draw the viewer right into a state of lively commentary.

Sander Vos (b. 1988) is a Dutch, London-based artist who constructs layered photographic photographs that disrupt automated seeing. He makes use of fragmentation, collage, and shifting views to remodel acquainted topics comparable to portraits, nonetheless lifes, and on a regular basis objects into dreamlike preparations that really feel each alien and recognizable.

Viewers are invited to pause, search, and reassemble that means, stepping briefly outdoors the illusions of constructed actuality. Photography turns into not a report of the world however a software for revealing how notion is actively assembled. Light, shadow, and destructive area act as instruments that interrupt ordinary methods of wanting and draw viewers in.

Working throughout digital and analog processes, Vos creates compositions that resist quick readability. Meaning unfolds steadily, revealing the fragile relationship between actuality, notion, and consciousness.

Instagram: @sandervos

While you make portraits and different photographs in addition to nonetheless life, “In Between the Shadows” is comprised completely of nonetheless life photographs. What is it about nonetheless life that appeals to you?

It’s actually about remodeling the that means of those objects and difficult the best way they’re ordinarily depicted.
Visually I deal with nonetheless life objects a bit like buildings, and intensify their architectural traces and shapes. But by doing so I purpose to get the viewer to relook at these objects in the best way they wouldn’t have earlier than. For me they function a technique to break our ordinary methods of issues and reveal in visible means that a number of views and realities can exist on the similar time.  

Your photographs have a dizzying high quality which makes the viewer query notion.  Can you speak in regards to the course of of creating these photographs?  How a lot is digital and the way a lot is analog minimize and paste?

The works within the collection In Between the Shadows are in the end created digitally, although they’re deeply knowledgeable by bodily manipulation. I work with bodily objects and paper cutouts, in search of attention-grabbing angles and high-contrast lighting setups that intensify their distinctive shapes. I then digitally assemble these pictures into compositions that also retain recognizable components, however really feel alien and harmonically fractured: inviting the viewer to take a second to actually assess what they’re .