'It's not what it seems' is a key concept in both Tessa Verder's and Charlotte Schrameijer's work. Both artists make interventions in reality, nature. Through collage - in the broadest sense of the word - both create new nature, new landscapes. Whereas Tessa uses digital means to combine photographed landscapes with elements from classical painting to create still images in which time seems to compress, Charlotte manually cuts up photos of idyllic landscapes and images of places in the world where we as humans leave our traces and mixes them into new landscapes, in which her unease about the situation in the world is palpable.
For both artists, this creates landscapes in which something does not seem right. The viewer is seduced and perceives the alienation in the works only on closer inspection.