Nature and imagination are central themes in my work. I create (dream) worlds that are based on stories from my own life, sources of inspiration from literature, film and performative arts. All this against the background of the ever-present nature or deliberately chosen scenes. I like to think that 'colour is the representation of reality and black and white is the representation of truth.'
Trijntje Keijser, my 15 year old daughter, has been a source of inspiration since the beginning of the series Nest, but also a co-artist. We work together in the project and thus show how personal the work of an artist can become. Choices are made together and images are composed by us two. Trijntje is not only a subject but we work together on the wonderful world of props, people from the family circle and imaginative environments. For example, we travelled to Sweden to photograph in the landscape where filmmaker Ingmar Bergman shot his famous epic The Seventh Seal.
The performative comes from my father and his one-man circus 'Theatro Picollini'. I sometimes played a role when the audience did not participate. This also resulted in the project "Mimus,.
1975 born in Eindhoven NL / lives and works in Breda NL
Training:
1994-1998 AKV St. Joost, Breda NL
Represented by:
Pennings Galerie, Eindhoven NL
De Beeldunie, Amsterdam NL
Teaching/assistance:
2015 - Now Professor Bachelor's Academy of Visual Education (Fontys University of Arts) Tilburg NL
2011 - Now Assistant, editor of the photography project Eboundja Afr, by Reinout van den Bergh.
2010 - 2014 Professor Bachelor Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Zuyd University College Maastricht NL)
Residence/exhibition programs:
2015,2016 GoghFlow. Vincent van GoghHouse, Zundert.
Main shows:
2019 She/He? 12 portraits of LHBTI'ers, solo open-air exhibition Breda NL
2019 Nest in collabaration with my daughter Trijntje Keijser, Raketstart, Stedelijk Museum Breda NL
2017 Circus, group show SF Camerawork / Lensculture San Francisco US
2017 GoghFlow, group show Melkweg Galerie by Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam NL
2016 Jump, group show Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven NL
2016 Fluxum, outdoor solo show over a length of 40 km along the river Maas
2015 "Mimus, at ‘the photobook show', London UK
2015 "Mimus, Athens Photo
2014 "Mimus, at BredaPhoto Festival NL
2011 Road of stars; the Camino, Museum of Religious Art, Uden NL
2008 Portraits of Polish veterans from the Second World War, solo exhibition at the Military Museum Wroclaw, PL
2007 Brabant Now, group exhibition Museum de Pont, Tilburg NL
Introspective and dreamy, these black-and-white photographs capture the delicate moment when the bubble of childhood pops, when fairytales cease to fall under the category of truth.
Komma