In Mimesis Noah Arends transforms an image sourced from fashion photography into a layered abstraction where movement and stillness intertwine. The original image is no longer recognisable, yet its aesthetic presence remains, reimagined as flowing waves of black, white, and muted tones that ripple across the canvas.
What was once a commercial image has been stripped of context and reshaped into something tactile and autonomous. The surface reveals Noah’s artisanal layering, where hidden fragments and subtle textures invite close inspection. Each curve and swirl carries a sense of rhythm, echoing both the elegance of fabric and the materiality of paint.
By using fashion photography as raw material, Noah questions the boundary between image and object, surface and depth. The result is a work that feels both familiar and enigmatic, seductive in its visual energy, yet open for the viewer to explore its hidden layers.