“Fashion” is a concept that represents what is trending at the moment. Yet, Paul Kooiker’s work is characterized by a certain timelessness. The artist portrays the biggest fashion brands and the most famous faces of this moment, but translates them into a completely unique world, where his style strongly refers to the history of photography and art movements such as surrealism. Kooiker's recent work moves at the intersection of fashion and art. In recent years, he has made a name for himself in the world of fashion photography where he does shoots for famous brands such as Rick Owens, Marni, Givenchy and Viktor & Rolf. He publishes his photos in Vogue Italia, Dazed, Another Magazine, Vanity Fair, M le Monde, and New York Times Magazine, among others. The fashion assignments give Kooiker room to experiment with new ideas for his work. "Paul Kooiker often exaggerates the form of bodies to the extreme. Using artificial body extensions, wigs and extravagant clothing, as well as light, shadow and fragmentation, he creates a unique visual language whose surrealistic undertones recall icons from art history and photography. Social themes such as diversity, body positivity or the fetishization of bodies, which the fashion world picks up on, also translate directly into Kooiker's image production. Between the queer and avant- garde creations of the designers and the nostalgically anarchic look of his photographs, an effective force emerges that is typical of Kooiker." (Thomas Seelig, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE)
Paul Kooiker's works (Fashion series) are produced in two sizes:
57 x 42 cm in an edition of 5 + 2 AP
114 x 86 cm in an edition of 3 + 2 AP.