Have you ever contemplated the limita- tions of one’s apprehension of reality? Contour Gallery extends an invitation to engage in an intellectually stimulating odyssey, delving into the exploration of nature and reality through the artistic expressions of Tjitske Oosterholt and Emile Gostelie in their latest exhibition.
The mutual fascination and at the same time, the embryonic thought from which their artistic practice emerges lie in the individual elements that, when combined, form a whole: the reality or nature we experience every day. Focus- ing on these individual elements, the artists investigate, albeit in different ways, the multiple
perspectives our reality can assume and the unpredictability of nature itself. Al- though the technique seems to be the same – collage – Oosterholt creates her collages individually, crafting each pola- roid, while Gostelie starts with an entire photograph depicting a haystack, then fragments it into multiple parts and assembles them in different config- urations. The artistic methodologies remain congruent, yet originate from divergent points of origin.