Profile Pictures

Details

ProjectProfile Pictures
Year2009 - 2011
Role Artist
Output Exhibition

The photo series Profile Pictures can be seen as a collection of encounters with artists. It is a series of semi abstract images depicting details of art pieces.
The images are photographic moments showing the portrait in different forms; as reflections (Self Portrait with Anish Kapoor), shadow (Self Portrait with Lawrence Weiner) or silhouette (Self Portrait with James Turrell).

Subject to the pictures from this series are art pieces which have had an impact on Johan Nieuwenhuize ‘s artistic vision.

“I seek to give the viewer the opportunity to identify with the person in the pictures. By using abstraction, I become one with the art piece, and so can the viewer. I visualise the fact that the reflection on art can -figuratively speaking- shape your identity.”

Profile Pictures was shown at Art Rotterdam and at Kunstrai in Amsterdam and as part of the group exhibition Droste Effect curated by Jaring Dürst Britt in 2012.