HAUTE PHOTOGRAPHIE 2023

8 - 12 February 2023

Overview

Visit MPV Gallery from 9 to 12 February at Haute Photographie in Rotterdam.
Location: Keilepand, Rotterdam

OPENING HOURS
Wednesday February 8, Preview + VIP Opening (by invitation)
Thursday 9 February, 10am – 6pm
Friday 10 February, 10am – 6pm
Saturday 11 February, 10am – 6pm
Sunday 12 February, 10am – 5pm

For more information, check Haute Photographie (haute-photographie.com)

MPV Gallery presents photography by Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk.

Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk started her creative path with liquid pigments and a brush, but, as life often does, her path took her away from painting. To claim space for her creative practice, Gemmy picked up a camera and started experimenting. “Through the manipulation of light and pixels, Gemmy began to create work that is a cross between painting and photography.

The lighting has become an aesthetic that superimposes velvety colors over a canvas of deep shadow and shimmering highlights to create an image full of shadow and light with a beautiful stillness in between. “Beauty for me is creating an image in which all the elements merge and then come together solidly. Telling a story using lines, light, color and the contrast between them.” Guided by her intuition and an obsession to create; as if she were moving liquid pigments on a canvas. For Gemmy, every detail is loving, obsessed and refined – from the backgrounds she usually paints herself, to the costumes, set construction, styling and post-production.

Gemmy's artworks become representations of real things that are not entirely grounded in reality. Each of her picturesque photographs expresses a certain stillness, a stillness that exists between waking and sleeping. Gemmy's works search for the spaces in between, each work expressing an imaginary world that exists between the tradition of painting and photography, between the painters of the past and the artists of today, between analog details and digital pixels, reality and fantasy, between the banal and the ideal, between light and shadow and between movement and stillness.

Works