Exhibition “Efemeer”

Group exhibition with Belgian artists Kevin Vanwonterghem and Sien Godderis at Kunstplatform Stek in Torhout, Belgium

3rd of February - 16th of March 2024

https://www.stek-art.be/huidig

Pellicola Magazine

“The first printed issue of Pellicola is a response to the increasing reliance on the online realm for content consumption, where quantity and aesthetics often overshadow quality. Recognizing the pitfalls of this trend, we chose the theme of “Time” to emphasize the importance of slowing down and engaging with images in a meaningful way. In a world saturated with rapidly produced content, we aim to delve into the origins and significance of photographs, fostering a deeper understanding. The magazine serves as a curated exploration of photography, featuring diverse voices — from Pellicola’s editorial team to photographers, critics, and curators — providing a critical and contemporary perspective on the subject.”

https://www.pellicolamag.com/product/volume-01-time/

3rd prize winner
Gomma B&W Awards 2023

“Black Cloud: A query, we might never fully answer: Am I limited to the confinement of my physical being or rather an extensive energy spanning across many lifetimes and timelines? Van der Vaart approaches this metaphysical subject through photographs that seem incomplete yet extend beyond the objects captured and leave the spectator with an eery feeling of extensive probabilities that lie beyond the visual world. Fractured glimpses into fluid scopes of self-perception, represented by abstract objects, negatives, floating figures, eloquently leave us with more questions than before.”

https://www.gommabwawards.com/

 

Book Review Hotshoe Magazine

It is difficult to get my bearings at first with this photobook - which way round upside down - what am I looking at? I imagine this disorientation is intentional. Julie van der Vaart is fascinated by space and time and our place within it. Nicely designed with metallic endpapers and interrupted by two blasts of beautiful blue to match the spine, these black & white photographs on matte paper were created over the course of six years from van der Vaart's photographic archive. Images of the human body, caves and water(falls) choreographed together appear like skin or landscape; others are more reminiscent of cordyceps, and still others, the solar system. Inspired by theories of non-linear time, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics, the processes rendered on the nudes in the darkroom make them otherworldly. We view these bodies through a screen, as if they are underwater, the surfaces active with life and movement, applying texture, and layering the images like paint on a canvas."

https://www.hotshoemagazine.com/products/issue-209-an-emotional-landscape

Blind Spot
VOID Publishing

“‘Blind Spot’ by artist Julie van der Vaart is a poetic exploration of the concepts of imaginary time and deep time. Photographs of the human body, caves and water(falls) are choreographed into disorientating sequences to reveal correlations between images. Created over six years, each series of work in the book contributes to the artist’s ongoing attempts to represent through the photographic image the discrepancies between imaginary time and experienced linear time.”

https://void.photo/blind-spot