/ Photo Fever Group Exhibition
6 Mar 2025 / 21 Mar 2025
We are proud to present the group exposition Photo Fever, featuring works by photographers Patrick Willocq, Denis Rouvre, Monique Eller, Casper Faassen, and Sebastiaan Knot.
Patrick Willocq aka Boomo Bialé
Boomo Bialé & The Walés is the signature name of an artistic collaboration between French photographer and humanist Patrick Willocq and several young Congolese first-time mothers, dancers and singers, a.k.a The Walés, identifying as Ekonda Batwa, an indigenous people of Democratic Republic of Congo.
Patrick grew up in DRC. He feels ‘black with a white skin’. Since 2009, he spends various trips up to three months at a stretch, deep in the African jungle, immersed within Ekonda territory, to learn about their fascinating rituals and ways of life.The naïve mise en scene images, co-created with the Walés, of the various series that form part of the body of work Songs of the Walés (2013-2016), an internationally acclaimed and exhibited photography project, revealed the rising of new ethnographic subjectivity that operates from the realm of participatory artistic production.
Denis Rouvre
Denis Rouvre (1967) is a world class French photographer with an impressive portfolio. Rouvre is a portraitist, whose photos have been published internationally and exhibited and acquired by various museums. He has published several books and has won numerous prizes such as a World Press Photo Award, A Sony Photography Award and a Hasselblad Master Award.
Rouvre lives and works in Paris. He began his career as a photo editor and press photographer for the French National Press. Since then, his passion for photography has expanded, with portrait photography becoming his main focus. For the past twenty years, his striking celebrity portraits have graced numerous international magazines. In addition to his celebrity portraits, Rouvre has taken us on various journeys all around the world through his art photography. He has portrayed Sadhus in India along the Ganges, taken us with him on his journey to Senegal to photograph half-god Senegalese wrestlers and taken us to Thailand through his photograph of boxing children. Rouvre’s portraits do not narrate a specific perspective, instead they capture the visible details of a spontaneous gesture or emotion, giving the viewer full interpretive freedom.
Monique Eller
Monique Eller is a Dutch artist and photographer who specializes in portrait and still life photography.
She captures her subjects in a seventeenth century inspired manner, with a contemporary twist. This can create a somewhat disruptive, often provocative impression of her work. Due to this, Eller’s images warrant endless observation, keeping the audience mesmerized at all times. One could say that her collection reaches beyond just photographic aesthetics, it forcing you to discover elements that go beyond the realm of the arts.
Her portraits and still life photography often visualize the vanity and transience of earthly existence. She often adopts a strong contrast between dark and light to emphasize and intensify this chosen subject matter. One could say that her Talent is of such a calibre that it intensifies your perception, emotions and awareness.
Casper Faassen
Visual artist Casper Faassen (1975) has been fascinated from a young age by unattainable 17th century artist such as Rembrandt and Van Goyen. The drawing of aspects of life that are unreachable is something Faassen developed when he was young. Faassen himself calls this ‘recollecting’. He makes the elusive his own by adding multiple layers. By applying these multiple layers he plays with the tension between the what disappears and appears, between the visible and invisible.
Although Faassen nowadays is more well known for his photographic work, he started his career as a painter. This still influences his work. Within his photographs he attempts to create a distance from the depicted object, similarly to how he experiences this when viewing paintings. He achieves this through an extra layer of glass or fog in between the image and the audience. Faassen further refers to painterly artworks by administering the Craquelure technique. This is an effect that traditionally appears when fast-drying acrylic paint is applied on top of slow-drying acrylic paint.
In the series ‘Les Marées’ or ‘The Tides’ Faassen collaborated with dancers from The Dutch National Ballet and The Dutch Dance Theater. This series initially was established through the organization Dance4life who asked him to photograph dancers from the National Ballet. Faassen was so inspired by this collaboration that the series ‘Les Marées’ was conceived.
Sebastiaan Knot
Sebastiaan Knot (NL 1970) is a visual artist living and working in Rotterdam - the Netherlands who uses light as his material to create contrasts of color and form with which the given space is beautified. After a diverse career as a photographer, graphic and webdesigner he went on to establish his own photography studio which he still runs successfully for 20 plus years. In recent years his work has shifted from commercial clients and commissioned assignments to fine art. Showing most recently at Project 2.0 in the Hague, he sells work both internationally and in the Netherlands. His work are in the collection of the Maasstad Hospital and in private collections. Notable exhibition has been with the Fondation Vasarely in July 2022 where his work was shown in a groupshow with Victor Vasarely and Paco Rabbane amongst others.
''My work is a dialogue between light and space. I act as the moderator and determine where the light enters that space. After that they collide and argue but always come to a conclusion and understanding. They both need each other to bee seen. As the painter Seurat said: “We do not see reality, but we see what light gives back to us of reality”.
