Still Life? - PBF04 / Fleur van dodewaard
15 November to 21 December 2019
Finding its reference in the art history, Fleur van Dodewaard’s minimalist and colorful works play on the confusion of mediums and lies between photography, painting and sculpture.
Fleur van Dodewaard’s creative practice takes place within a triangle of photography, painting and sculpture. Even though the outcome may always have a photographic character, her work shows an endless tumbling play between the flat or not so flat surface, the object, its representation, a challenge of media and their historical references. The works often show minimal, colorful, abstract forms. Often temporary, the constructions of elementary or DIY materials are assembled and shot in the studio. After having been educated and working in the field of Photography and Fine Art for almost a decade, Fleur challenged herself last year by learning a new skill to integrate into her work: weaving.
The project Apples and Oranges is one of the first results of that process. It is a series of photographic collages with photographs acting as ‘holding space’ to small pieces of hand-woven fabric in various materials. As it is often the case: the work finds its reference in the art history. This time it is the painting Apples and Oranges (Pommes et Oranges) by Paul Cézanne from 1899. Also, the idiom ‘comparing apples and oranges’ winks at the use of different media, that can normally not be compared. To Fleur van Dodewaard, ‘viewing one medium from the perspective of the other medium; back and forth and upside down’, is a way to keep on looking at things from a different angle. 'Like waking up every day and seeing the world with fresh eyes’.
