/ DIRK ROSEPORT - TRANSCENDENTAL TRANQUILITY
17 May 2026 / 24 Jun 2026
In May, Project 2.0 / Gallery will proudly present "Transcendental Tranquility", a solo exhibition of work by Belgian photographer Dirk Roseport.
Roseport's intimate seascape works invoke a meditative silence and invites the viewer to counter the overstimulation of our modern existence in favour of a quiet contemplation.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Sunday 17 May, between 15:00 - 17:00, with Dirk Roseport present.
Noordeinde 57
2514 GC
Den Haag
We look forward to introducing our clients to the stunning work of Dirk Roseport!
About the series:
In his Transcendental Tranquility series, Roseport withdraws from the pressures of time and positions himself as a receptive presence in the face of the elemental. The ocean, the horizon, and the sky—stripped down to their most austere formal essence—become his sole vocabulary. It is from this disciplined restraint that a body of work emerges that far transcends its apparent simplicity.
Over the years, Transcendental Tranquility has unfolded into an open and deeply contemplative series. Each image stands on its own. At the same time, each image is also an active part of a larger continuum. The subtle variations and repetitions are more reminiscent of the meditations of painting than of the immediacy of photography. Many of the works indeed balance on the border between the photographic and the painterly, inviting prolonged and repeated viewing. The sequential arrangement in a series and the repetitive nature of the image composition invite an almost meditative experience, in which perception slows down and deepens. Different layers gradually reveal themselves, creating a profound silence that is both intimate and expansive. In an era characterized by uncontrollable acceleration and almost incessant psychological overstimulation, his images paint a counter-space - a space in which the viewer can let go of the burden of thinking and enter a state of quiet contemplation.
In a sense - specially in his more recent work – Roseport no longer even photograph seascapes, but uses water, the horizon, and the sky to paint an abstract tableau.They are, rather, abstract fields constructed through these raw elements. The deliberate central placement of the horizon (or horizontal line) - fundamental element in the composition of many of the images on display - simultaneously structures and liberates the work from any form of hierarchy or convention within photography and the act of viewing it. By employing strategies such as repetition, subtle alienation, and uncontrolled motion blur, Roseport destabilizes the fixity of the photographic image. What initially appears to be a frozen moment begins to unfold over time upon prolonged viewing—almost cinematically—thus suggesting a fluid, perceptual reality. Increasingly, the works also evoke the chromatic sensibility of Mark Rothko, in which color becomes both structure and emotion. Also striking: in an age of often unrestrained manipulation of the indexical truth of the photographic medium, Roseport swears by the authenticity of his images. What we see is what the camera captures at the moment the photograph is taken - unaltered, immediate, and precise.
About Dirk Roseport:
After a start in the financial world, Roseport soon moved on to the advertising sector, where he was Creative Director in several advertising agencies including Ted Bates, DMB&B, McCann Erickson, Young & Rubicam and Brandlab. For three years he was WW Creative Director at Filmnet Pay-TV (Nethold/Canal +/Richemont Group).
He worked closely with professional photographers and directors in the Benelux and abroad, got inspired by the work they did and learned from them on the sets.
