Artist Anouk Kruithof will present her new body of work „Ego, Eco, Crescendo“ at this year’s Organ Vida Festival, in French Pavilion.
In her new body of work „Ego, Eco, Crescendo“ Anouk Kruithof examines human-nature relationship as a relation entailing contamination, displacement, mutual alternation and finally normalization. Images of environmental disasters, found or bought online, are printed on rubber latex and plastic in order to unveil underlying smooth and sleek nonhuman shape. Anthropogenic images of natural catastrophes are appropriated, dissolved and transformed into objects. Ephemeral and seductive flow of images materializes as a soft protective cover for dismembered synthetic bodies. Mutated anthropomorphic forms inhabit fragments of natural structures and construct hybrids that incorporate prostheses, walking sticks, crutches, bandage, gel, oxygen and anesthesia masks as well as unfamiliar artificial rocky chunks. The untouched natural ideal is being severely tampered with so as to reveal new vision of human – nature bond.
Born 1981 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Anouk Kruithof is an artist working in Mexico City, New York and Amsterdam.Conceptual and project based, her work uses photography as a vehicle for infinite possibilities. Her multilayered, interdisciplinary approach encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, artist-books, text, performance, video and interventions in the public domain. She has exhibited internationally at institutions such as MoMA, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, and Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. Her work is in the collections of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Aperture Foundation, FOAM and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 2014, she received the Charlotte Köhler Prize and in 2012, an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. She created stresspress.biz to showcase her own book projects and critical writing about artist books and to develop a publishing platform for her own self-published books as well as future collaborations with other artists and writers. Last November 2016 she launched her 11th book, AUTOMAGIC published by Editorial RM and stresspress.biz.
She is a frenetic artist book maker and she initiated the Anamorphosis Prize which aim is to promote excellence, dialogue and excitement in the field of self-published photobooks and photo-based artist books.