Carmen de Vos

Altstadt Rêveries - Diptych

2011

Altstadt Rêveries #02, 2008 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] Digital color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜ...

Altstadt Rêveries #06, 2008 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] Digital color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE, Hand signed & numbered by the artist, edition of 7 - nr 02 Unmounted. Carmen De Vos - Artist statement Flying Freelance Portrayer. Purveyor of Exquisite Photographic Peculiarities. Chroniqueur and Archiver. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. The Belgian artist Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to loose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception she uses old Polaroid camera’s, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods - such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction - are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results - such as colorisation, deformation, unsharpness - which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty, because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic. All by themselves. Which merrily surprises her. Or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She never really got cured from naughtiness. She can’t help but traveling back to these blessed times of free-love photography...

RANONKEL #diptych, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40cm each, 70x40cm installed. Digital archival pigment print based on a Polar...

I am leaving! (Till Death do us Part) - 2007 - 20x24cm each, installed 20x50cm, Edition of 10, 2 digital C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids. Certificate and Signature label, artist...

Two pinhile camera Chromogenic prints (Unique) Signed and dated, verso 40 x 30 inches, each print 40 x 60 inches, overall This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York C...

Her-Untitled 2 & 4 Diptych, 2018 by Ying Chen From the Her series Archival pigment print Overall size: 14 in. H x 22 in. W Individual size: 14 in. H x 11 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed This is a photo contemporary collage project based on modern art. Greatly influenced by natural figures and artificial textures. I love to collect black and white photos of female portraits, cutting out the parts and stripping them from the original context, combining them with the abstract design figure, to get a new composition. This project is about 'she', every single piece has a unique female image...

Her-Untitled 7 & 5 Diptych, 2018 by Ying Chen From the Her series Archival pigment print Overall size: 14 in. H x 22 in. W Individual size: 14 in. H x 11 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP...

These works are part of the MY WAY project, a trip with the actress Adria Arjona to Tokyo and Thailand, these paintings recover the essence of a series of traditional ceremonies live...