Satijn Panyigay (1988, NL) photographs transitional, uninhabited spaces — museums between exhibitions, construction sites, vacant offices or, her latest addition, the empty building of the Grand Palais in Paris — where absence and light become subjects in themselves.
Panyigay is widely recognised for her refined visual language, sensitivity to architectural space and cinematically-lit atmosphere. Each image is a subtle meditation on impermanence, memory, and the emotional charge of emptiness.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (NL), Fotomuseum Den Haag (NL), Escher in Het Paleis (NL), Rembrandthuis (NL), Verwey Museum Haarlem (NL), Museum Tot Zover (NL), Museum W (NL), Villa Mondriaan (NL), Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac (FR).
Panyigay’s prints are collected by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Museum W, DZ Bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, KPMG, TU Delft, Schiphol, and numerous private and semi-private collections.