NYAB Event - "Real VS Role" Exhibition

"Real VS Role" Exhibition

Rabbit Hole Studio Gallery

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Rabbithole Gallery, a contemporary art space in the Dumbo art district in Brooklyn, brings together the work of three photographers: Emiliano Granado (Argentina), Julieta Sans (Argentina), and Anouk Kruithof, (the Netherlands), who each bring to their work a very different investigation into portraiture. All three artists explore and deconstruct themes of performance, pose, and role-play.

Anouk Kruithof, the recipient of this year's ICP Infinity Award in the category of "Young Photographer" presents two portrait projects: "Becoming Blue" and "Daily Exhaustion."

In "Becoming Blue," the subjects are dressed in blue and posed against a plain blue background. Blue is a color generally associated with calm and serenity, yet Anouk turns this expectation on its head when she catches her subjects unawares as she simultaneously presses the shutter release. As a result of this element of surprise, they have not been able to present the expression, pose or gesture they had planned and may have preferred. Anouk deconstructs how her subjects subconsciously/consciously present themselves for the camera.

"The Daily Exhaustion" is the artist's self-described 'newspaper-zine' of self-portraits in which she appears to be physically spent, her face glistening with sweat as she photographs herself over and over again. The close up portraits stretch across a double page spread, bisected through the center of each face by the folds in the newsprint on which the images are printed. This creates a set of disjointed masks as the magazine is pulled apart and spread over one wall. Anouk's exhaustion replaces the affectation and posing we develop in front of the camera into something more real.