Sander Vos, In Between the Shadows 08, 2023
Breakout artist Sander Vos was featured in Lenscratch this week as part of Still Life Week. Read excerpts below:
My work is an investigation into the mechanics of perception. I construct layered photographic images designed to disrupt “automated seeing,” the way our brains quickly categorize and dismiss the world around us. By using fragmentation, collage, and shifting perspectives, I transform familiar subjects into arrangements that feel both alien and recognizable.I am interested in the moment the viewer is forced to pause, search, and reassemble meaning. In series such as Interpolation and In Between the Shadows, I treat photography not as a record of the world, but as a tool for revealing how we actively build our own reality. In these works, light, shadow, and negative space act as catalysts to interrupt habit and draw the viewer into a state of active observation.
While you make portraits and other images besides still life, “In Between the Shadows” is comprised entirely of still life images. What is it about still life that appeals to you?
It’s really about transforming the meaning of these objects and challenging the way they are ordinarily depicted.
Visually I treat still life objects a bit like buildings, and accentuate their architectural lines and shapes. But by doing so I aim to get the viewer to relook at these objects in the way they wouldn’t have before. For me they serve as a way to break our habitual ways of looking at things and reveal in visual way that multiple perspectives and realities can exist at the same time.
Your images have a dizzying quality which makes the viewer question perception. Can you talk about the process of making these images? How much is digital and how much is analog cut and paste?
The works in the series In Between the Shadows are ultimately created digitally, though they are deeply informed by physical manipulation. I work with physical objects and paper cutouts, seeking interesting angles and high-contrast lighting setups that accentuate their unique shapes. I then digitally assemble these photographs into compositions that still retain recognizable elements, but feel alien and harmonically fractured: inviting the viewer to take a moment to really assess what they’re looking at.
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Sander Vos, In Between the Shadows 04, 2023
Installation shot from Sander Vos: Interpolation at Catherine Couturier Gallery
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Sander Vos, In Between the Shadows 08, 2023
Breakout artist Sander Vos was featured in Lenscratch this week as part of Still Life Week. Read excerpts below:
My work is an investigation into the mechanics of perception. I construct layered photographic images designed to disrupt “automated seeing,” the way our brains quickly categorize and dismiss the world around us. By using fragmentation, collage, and shifting perspectives, I transform familiar subjects into arrangements that feel both alien and recognizable.I am interested in the moment the viewer is forced to pause, search, and reassemble meaning. In series such as Interpolation and In Between the Shadows, I treat photography not as a record of the world, but as a tool for revealing how we actively build our own reality. In these works, light, shadow, and negative space act as catalysts to interrupt habit and draw the viewer into a state of active observation.
While you make portraits and other images besides still life, “In Between the Shadows” is comprised entirely of still life images. What is it about still life that appeals to you?
It’s really about transforming the meaning of these objects and challenging the way they are ordinarily depicted.
Visually I treat still life objects a bit like buildings, and accentuate their architectural lines and shapes. But by doing so I aim to get the viewer to relook at these objects in the way they wouldn’t have before. For me they serve as a way to break our habitual ways of looking at things and reveal in visual way that multiple perspectives and realities can exist at the same time.
Your images have a dizzying quality which makes the viewer question perception. Can you talk about the process of making these images? How much is digital and how much is analog cut and paste?
The works in the series In Between the Shadows are ultimately created digitally, though they are deeply informed by physical manipulation. I work with physical objects and paper cutouts, seeking interesting angles and high-contrast lighting setups that accentuate their unique shapes. I then digitally assemble these photographs into compositions that still retain recognizable elements, but feel alien and harmonically fractured: inviting the viewer to take a moment to really assess what they’re looking at.
Sander Vos, In Between the Shadows 07
Sander Vos, In Between the Shadows 04, 2023
Installation shot from Sander Vos: Interpolation at Catherine Couturier Gallery
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