Carmen de Vos
Tales of Bitter Doom #57
2018

Name: Tales of Bitter Doom #57
Brand: Carmen de Vos
Price: 436.42 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

'Tales of Bitter Doom #57' by Carmen De Vos, Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018 digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating, hand signed & numbered by artist on the back. Please view framing and signature example. exhibited: Ghent, BAD 2018 and on the launch party of her book in Antwerp, 2015. Tales of Bitter Doom is a kinky photo story in 25 photos by the Belgian artist Carmen De Vos in an exclusive limited edition of 7. The Belgian photographer Carmen De Vos shoots Polaroids to frame her mental escapades. They get so easily out of hand. She thinks up situations and collects fantasies. 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 with her Polaroids.

Creator:

Carmen de Vos (1967, Belgian)

Creation Year:

2018

Dimensions:

Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 0.12 in (3 mm)

Medium:

C Print,Polaroid

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-