" By hiding the faces and not revealing a clear identity, the focus shifts to the shapes of the human body, investigating ways in which body and clothing can become new forms."
Artist: Roos Peltenburg
Project: Altered
"It becomes intriguing when you need to look at an image for longer to grasp it."
With a background in fashion studies, the artist works with photography, collage and moving image, creating interdisciplinary works with an experimental and conceptual approach, conveying a sense of abstraction, distortion, alienation and surrealism, by playing with lights and shadows, zooming in on details, cutting and layering images and discovering new forms.
Fascinated with shapes and objects surrounding everyday life, materials and textures, she starts her creative process by reading background articles and collecting images that resonate with a certain vision, and finds inspiration in other photographers, visiting museums and observing shapes on the street.
By hiding the faces and not revealing a clear identity, the focus shifts to the shapes of the human body, investigating ways in which body and clothing can become new forms.
"What interests me most is when these forms lose their original context and transform into something else, such as a sculpture. For me, a sculpture has something tangible and can also give the feeling of physicality."
© Roos Peltenburg
Editor: Kiko