In her new series, New europeans, Tessa Verder explores what it means when someone is forced to leave his/her home and country and finds him/herself forced to live in another culture.
Her work has always been a fusion between my two archives of photography and Western-European classical paintings. She explores how the past from her own roots is relating to and connecting with the present.
In the series New Europeans she find inspiration in both non-European and Ottoman visual language. In these portraits of people from countries such as Somalia, Eritrea, Armenia and Sierra Leone, the frame of the image and the absence of perspective are essential.
The eight works at the Unseen will be presented as an installation.