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Nancy Lee
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Nancy Lee – Fragmented Reality
The grid plays a central role in the photo collages of Dutch photographer Nancy Lee. It provides the image space with a clear structure, whilst also serving to fragment the reality being depicted. Visual chaos and optical harmony generate a surprising connection between audience and image. The viewer sees a rhythmic composition of tiny particles of reality brought together in a photographic symphony of urban simultaneity. Her images explore subjects such as traffic, market life, or pedestrians, structuring them according to certain characteristics. People carrying open umbrellas, for example, are transformed into an image of multiple abstract dots, or even raindrops. This cutting apart and re-stitching of reality is done to such an extent that even lorries are deliberately divided into multiple pieces, then floating as dashes of colour through the image space. As with a puzzle, the viewers can try to put the individual pieces together in their heads. More important, however, is the visual rhythm of each picture, through which emerges a unique atmosphere, or a musically inspired theme. Some of the images are like eclectic jazz improvisations, while others float harmonically as classical pieces of music. The abstract-aesthetic rearrangement of reality can be seen as representative of a globalised world. A world in which the homogeneity of the whole appears broken by the diversity of the individual parts, even though these individual parts are often similar or identical.
Stephan Reisner
The grid plays a central role in the photo collages of Dutch photographer Nancy Lee. It provides the image space with a clear structure, whilst also serving to fragment the reality being depicted. Visual chaos and optical harmony generate a surprising connection between audience and image. The viewer sees a rhythmic composition of tiny particles of reality brought together in a photographic symphony of urban simultaneity. Her images explore subjects such as traffic, market life, or pedestrians, structuring them according to certain characteristics. People carrying open umbrellas, for example, are transformed into an image of multiple abstract dots, or even raindrops. This cutting apart and re-stitching of reality is done to such an extent that even lorries are deliberately divided into multiple pieces, then floating as dashes of colour through the image space. As with a puzzle, the viewers can try to put the individual pieces together in their heads. More important, however, is the visual rhythm of each picture, through which emerges a unique atmosphere, or a musically inspired theme. Some of the images are like eclectic jazz improvisations, while others float harmonically as classical pieces of music. The abstract-aesthetic rearrangement of reality can be seen as representative of a globalised world. A world in which the homogeneity of the whole appears broken by the diversity of the individual parts, even though these individual parts are often similar or identical.
Stephan Reisner
2000 - 2001 | Studied photography at Panamerican Escola des Artes, Sao Paulo, Brasil |
2002 – 2004 | Studied photography at St. Joost Kunstacademie, Breda, Netherlands |
Lives in the Netherlands |
Awards (Selection)
2008 | NBKS Voorjaar Individual Subsitie |
2007 | NBKS Voorjaar Individual Subsitie |
2006 | La Lanka kunstprijs, Nomination |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 | Solo Exposition Rythem, Galerie Penning, Eindhoven,Netherlands |
2008 | Grafische Atelier Den Bosch, Netherlands |
2005 | Stichting Beeldende Kunst Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 | Fotos fever, Kunstbeurs Brussels,Belgium |
SBK Breda bei Breda Photos 2012, Netherlands | |
Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, Netherlands | |
2011 | LUX Nijmegen, Netherlands |
2010 | Affordable Art Fair, Westergas Fabriek Amsterdam, presented by Foto100, Netherlands |
Arti 10, Den Haag, presented by Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, Netherlands | |
2009 | Woonsbeurs Rai Amsterdam, Galeire Bart Kunst in Huis, Netherlands |
City Limits, Galerie 48, Breda, Netherlands | |
Galerie 23, Summer Exposition, Helmond, Netherlands | |
Achemea Kunstcollectie exposition, Zeist, Netherlands | |
2008 | Nederlandse Gasunie, Groningen, Netherlands |
Aa Kerk, Groningen, Niederlande | |
BartKunstInHuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands | |
2007 | Herry Pennings Estafetteprijs Expositie, Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, Niederlande |
Lishui International Photographic Exhibition, China | |
NBKS Salon X exposition, Breda, Netherlands | |
ACF Amsterdam,Netherlands | |
2006 | La Lanka gallery, Friesland, Netherlands |
Bartkunstinhuis Gallery, Nijmegen, Netherlands | |
Project 073, Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch, Netherlands | |
2005 | “In my 50’s”, SBK Gallery, Osdorp, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
The future of the Past, National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesien | |
Understanding Independency, Gallery Foto Journalistic Antara, Jakarta, Indonesien | |
Tribute the Lights Fantastic Annual Fine Art Photography Exhibition, Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, USA | |
2004 | Lishui International Photographic Competition Exhibition, China |
Selected students exhibition, Amsterdam Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
VIPS Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
2003 | 10th International Photographic Art Festival, Peking, China |
Arles Art Festival, France |
Books/Catalogs (Selection)
Herry Pennings Estafetteprijs Expositie, Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, 2007
Lishui China International Photographic Exhibition, 2007
Masa Depah Sebuah Masa Lalu Foto festival, Catalogue of Understanding Independency 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia
Herry Pennings Estafetteprijs Expositie, Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, 2007
Lishui China International Photographic Exhibition, 2007
Masa Depah Sebuah Masa Lalu Foto festival, Catalogue of Understanding Independency 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia
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