DESCRIPTION
‘Black Waves’ is an expressionistic and metaphorical project that explores the dark depths of grief. It’s a based on the true story of a friend of mine, who lost her 19 year old daughter Eva to suicide on a holiday with her boyfriend in France.
The series is a personal visual interpretation of the 7 diaries full of grief that I received from the mother of Eva. In this project, I visualize the dark and harsh landscape of mourning. I materialize the nature of sadness and loss. I show the intense desire of the family members left behind to reverse the cruel and heartless truth by adding some negative prints to the story.
The title ‘Black Waves’ refers to the negative moods of Eva which led to the irreversible act of stepping out of life. But also to the tide of grief that characterizes the life of the family she left behind.
Like Murakami wrote: ’Memories are what warm you up from the inside, but they’re also what tear you apart’. Grief comes in waves, in paroxysms, in sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees, blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.
AUTHOR
EDUCATION:
- Academy of Fine Arts, Lier, Belgium, 2012-2017
- Masterclass led by John Lambrichts, the Netherlands, 2015-2016
- Various workshops in Belgium and abroad
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- 2e price ‘Fotonale Brugge’, Bruges, Belgium, 2014
- 4 Nominations Fine Art Photography Awards, USA, 2017
- Finalist ‘Graduation Project’, newspaper ‘De Morgen’ Belgium, 2017
- Selection for ‘Le Masterklass’, Paris, France, 2017-2018
SOLO EXPOSITIONS:
- GC ’t Blikveld, Bonheiden, Belgium, 2017
- ‘Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen’, 18 locations, Belgium, 2017-2019
- B&B Capotorto, Permanent exposition, Petriano, Italië, 2016-now
CURATED GROUP EXPOSISIONS:
- ‘Portrait 2018’, CO, USA, 2018
- ‘The intimate portrait’, NC, USA, 2017
- Photoville 2017: ‘The Print Swap’, NY, USA, 2017
- ‘Graduation exposition’, Belgium, 2017
- ‘New Harvest 2’, the Netherlands, 2016
- ‘Photo View 2016’ Belgium, 2016
PUBLICATIONS:
- New Dutch Photography Talent 2018, GUP Magazine, the Netherlands, 2017 + cover
- Photo of the day, Don’t take pictures, USA, 2017
- ‘Life without smartphone’, newspaper ‘De Morgen’, online version, Belgium, 2017
- ‘Pure’, newspaper ‘De Morgen’, paper version, Belgium, 2017
- Catalogue ‘Fotografiecircuit 2016-2019’, Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen, Belgium 2016
- Catalogue ‘PhotoView 2016’, Centrum voor Beeldexpressie, Belgium 2016
- Catalogue ‘Fotonale 2014’, Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Belgium,
