Coen Dekkers *1958 The Netherlands
In general, the main theme in my work is ‘the elusiveness of things’, a deeper reality which might be beyond our grasp.
In my opinion ‘mankind’ struggles how to deal with the ‘unknown’ or the ‘unseen’. As response to those uncertainties, we in generalare trying to get as much as control as possible or we just create our own world. In my perspective the magic or challenge of the future lays in the acceptance of the unknown and things beyond our grasp. Often, I use the sequence concept to depict this elusive area. This also gives my work a cinematic character and it will challenge the spectator to look more intense at it. Within this context desire as a theme is an ever-recurring element in both the sequences and individual images.

Quote from an interview: “I want to walk around things, observing them from different angles. It would be untruthful to choose a single moment from that. What I look for lies in ‘a moment in between’. A visual quietude, like music also requires
moments of silence.”

Exhibitions:
1997: TNO Apeldoorn solo exhibition;
2003: Exhibition O’dart Delft, solo exhibition;
2009: ‘The man habitat’ group exhibition Kadmium Delft;
2010/11: Solo exhibition ‘Sequential Portraits’ Kadmium Delft;
2012: Group Exhibition ‘Ataque’ Kadmium Delft;
2012/19: Curatorship Kadmium Delft, from artistical perspective
and the implementation /realization of exhibitions;
2017-now: Member of the Art Committee The Hague University op Applied Sciences;

I’m a self-taught photographer and have a background in Industrial Design-Engineering. I live and works in The Hague, The Netherlands.

all images and sequenzes © 1980-2024