Anouk Kruithof
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Work from her oeuvre
“Anouk Kruithof considers photography as a starting point of infinite possibilities. Her method is interdisciplinary and mostly idea based. She inventively explores ideas of the picture plane, the image, and the materiality and physicality of the medium of photography. Her work is at once seductive while simultaneously critically deconstructing this seductiveness. Social inter action such as encounters with strangers, she analyzes, shapes and imagines forming a basis in her practice. She is interested in the inner worlds of people. Visualizing the universal discomfort, which can be seen as the boundaries of the human mind. Basically she is looking for elements, which can’t be seen from outside with a medium: photography, which just shows just the surface of things. It seems like an impossible target and therefore creates resistance, which stretched her practice from photography into -photo, -video, and -spatial installations, social in situ-works, take away ephemera, assemblage, performance and artist-books. Often her temporary installations and interactions with unknown people and space form the basis of her photographs. After she uses her photographs as material, which she transfers across different surfaces and spaces into sculptural forms, minimal installations, and tactile artist-books.”