This edition Gallery Untitled will show the newest works of Lenny Oosterwijk, Iris Bergman and Dekkers Leijdekkers.
Lenny Oosterwijk
Fine Art Photography
Lenny Oosterwijk (Rotterdam, 1969) has been taking photos of rivers since 2007. He titled the project Heraclitus, according to his statement that “no one can step into the same river twice”, because different water will always flow. The photos show the river reflections as abstract, apparently infinitely moving im-
ages, they often look more like a painting than a photo. In 2014 Oosterwijk made his film Heraclitus, which was screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and Kunsthal Rotterdam. His autonomous work now also consists of
photographs of seas and landscapes.
Oosterwijk went back to all places where he took pictures of reflections in the seas and rivers. Here he collected water from, among others, the North Sea, Wadden Sea, IJ and the Maas and bottled the fluids. On the labels of these bottles you can read the coordinates that you can enter via Google Maps. Via these coordinates you end up exactly where the photo was taken.
Iris Bergman
Botanical stillifes
Iris Bergman (Amsterdam, 1993), is a lens-based artist who investigates nature as an utopia. She constructs landscapes and creates stillifes where botanical and floral characters take the lead. By constantly alternating between observer and director, she creates a tension in her workflow. Playfully she
collects the results until a new world emerges.
Her work is characterized by the fragmentary constructions, in which apparently random approaches arise bit by bit and transform her subjects into an artificial world. Assembling these approaches into a whole is an important part of her process.
Dekkers Leijdekkers
Cyanotypes on Dutch Algae
Dekkers Leijdekkers are works made by Pai Dekkers (1989), who is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His love for nature, education and representation has moved him to
explore the wondrous underwater world of algae. Writings on nature and how we (humans) approach it have occupied my conversations for many years. His approach has lead to the philosophical exploration of man’s approach toward nature (and algae in particular), by visual means. By examining representational forms of algae and building an educational
platform he aims to develop a better understanding of our relationship with nature, and therefore, our place
in the world.