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27 april tot 13 mei Following 'The Day after Valentine' VOUS ETES ICI now shows earlier work of the young Dutch female artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland (Maarn, 1973). Because of the prominent role of the human figure in her compositions, Hooft Graafland finds her work to be more like sculpture than photography. Also, the process of staging the setting becomes part of the concept. The careful choreography of the human figure in its surroundings also renders the work a performance-like quality. Hooft Graafland is a real Globetrotter, besides Iceland and Bolivia she visited Israel, Canada and the United States for her work. Since last year she works in China. In the Iceland Series (Reykjavik, 2004) Hooft Graafland lays naked on the roofs in the lava landscape of Iceland. Hooft Graafland says about this: ""They are a response to the Icelandic landscape. The desolated, wide spaces of the lava fields, it feels almost surreal, like being in a fairytale. Traces of 'human intervention' are rare, just a few houses in the huge empty spaces. To lay on top of the roofs creates another surrealistic element. The nakedness relates to the nature and makes the body more vulnerable (also because of the weather conditions in Iceland, which is not visible in the picture)"". The photographs of the Salt Series (2005) are made in the Uyuni Salt desert in Bolivia. The enormous white space invites it selves, as like a drawing paper says Hooft Graafland. She was impressed and fascinated by the popularity of the Hulk in that part of the world. It inspired Hooft Graafland for the works Masmo!1, Masmo!2 and the triptych Sevens Steps to overlapping Beauty. The massive proportion of the Bolivian man with the green boats responds to the amazing surrounding. |
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