“The idea of photography as a way to experience the world as it is not - in different ways - is fascinating to me, transforming the known into an unknown.” So says Dutch photo artist Anne de Vries, and looking at the wealth of ideas and experimentation in her work you can see she is a woman of her word. Whether playing with overlaid identical images which she cuts sections out of, thus revealing more of the same image on different deeper levels, or photographing the reflection of cave paintings in wrinkled aluminium foil, de Vries is out to see how far she can push an image whilst leaving it readable. She takes great delight in finding ways of subverting apparently straightforward images, as with the impossible flora in 'Plan' or the melting saccharin junk food in 'Eye Candy'. As well as rephotographing images, de Vries has begun to experiment more with digital possibilities, such as her moving image collaboration with musician James Whipple,
Forecast. Take a look.
From 'A vs B', with Billy Rennkamp
From the 'Cave 2 Cave' series
Group Face
Accumulations
From 'A vs B', with Billy Rennkamp
Infinite Value
From the 'Modern Unpromised' series
Plan
From the 'Cave 2 Cave' series
Eye Candy, with Janis Ponisch
All images © Anne de Vries
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