At Project 2.0 / Gallery, you can currently see the work of our three newly represented artists, Dirk Hardy, Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk and Femke Reijerman. We are excited about the partnership with these talented photographers as well as sharing it with our clients.
GET TO KNOW THE ARTISTS
Gemmy began creating work that exists somewhere in-between painting and photography.
The lighting has become an aesthetic that layers velvet colors across a canvas of deep shadow and glinting highlights- to create an image full of shadow and light with a beautiful stillness in-between.
Led by her intuition and an obsession to create; as if she was moving liquid pigments on a canvas, For Gemmy, each detail is lovingly obsessed over and refined- from the backdrops that she generally paints herself to the costumes, set building, styling, and post-production.
Gemmy’s artworks become a depiction of real things not entirely grounded in reality. Each of her painterly photographs expresses a beautiful stillness, a stillness existing between awake and asleep.
Femke Reijerman’s photography does not depict actual reality as such; rather, it portrays a ‘reality’ as experienced and constructed by her. By piecing together various seemingly random elements – or, in turn, by consciously casting them aside – Femke is able to create a new, often abstract realism full of colour and tactility in her images. These are then all painstakingly created by hand and without the use of digital technology. An image comes together much like a sculpture does: she is constantly chiselling away at various bits and pieces, continuously constructing and composing, forming that final image, that ultimate vision.
As a child, Dirk Hardy (born 1989, Boxtel, NL) dreamed of becoming an architect—to design places and spaces for people to live in. He studied Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology and turned to photography in 2010 at Willem de Kooning Academy. Today, as an artist, Hardy researches, constructs, and photographs imagined worlds within his studio.
Hardy explores the complexity of life in an idiosyncratic and empathic way. His meticulously constructed and socially engaged tableaux shine light on human existence. In the creation of his worlds he fuses his imagination, personal memories and true events into ‘purposeful fiction’.