Cecilia Paredes

Forest

2019

In Bloom - 2020 Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 50x40cm Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. ...

Sunglasses - 2016 - Edition of 10, 20x30cm, 2016, Print on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free. Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao Ruspoli's Monogra...

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...

"Shannon", Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2017, digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao Ruspoli's Mon...

Rachel Nichols Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2011, digital C-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free. Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao Ruspo...

Gil at Fourteen ( A Crack in the Mirror) - 2019 60 x 50 cm, Edition of 10 +2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on the original reclaim...

Lucia at Sixteen ( A Crack in the Mirror) 

 50 x 40 cm, Edition of 7 +2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on the original reclaimed Fu...

El Reflejo (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - 2019 60x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji...

Ground Water (Journey to the Center of the Earth) - 2019 Edition of 10. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mo...

"Intertwining of hands and feet" - 2018 Edition of 10, 20x30cm, Archival C- Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate....