A series that portrays my search for situations that provide me with an ‘unheimlich’ feeling; the sense that something is off. Most of these works were created at night, when the unseen awakens. But photos shot in the daylight turn out to fit in seamlessly with them. Searching for the hidden mystique. 2022 – 2023
A series that portrays my search for situations that provide me with an ‘unheimlich’ feeling; the sense that something is off. Most of these works were created at night, when the unseen awakens. But photos shot in the daylight turn out to fit in seamlessly with them. Searching for the hidden mystique. 2022 – 2023
Even though I surround myself with them, I find myself looking at digital images of plants more often than I look at actual plants. And by ‘look’ I mean more than just taking a glimpse. I mean observing their details, their uniqueness, really taking in their essence. There is something inherently unnatural about putting small excerpts of nature in plant pots and putting them on display. It’s like puzzle pieces of different images being forced together. Most times the composition it creates is just an awkward reminder that soil and concrete don’t combine. Sometimes though, I see a beautiful mosaic. 2018 – 2022
Even though I surround myself with them, I find myself looking at digital images of plants more often than I look at actual plants. And by ‘look’ I mean more than just taking a glimpse. I mean observing their details, their uniqueness, really taking in their essence. There is something inherently unnatural about putting small excerpts of nature in plant pots and putting them on display. It’s like puzzle pieces of different images being forced together. Most times the composition it creates is just an awkward reminder that soil and concrete don’t combine. Sometimes though, I see a beautiful mosaic. 2018 – 2022
In haar fotografie legt Sterre Arentsen de details vast van een onvatbare wereld. Dit levert beelden op die visueel vervreemdend zijn en tegelijkertijd vertrouwde ervaringen oproepen. Haar fotoserie Luwte, onderdeel van Stil 't Tij, is een emotionele tocht door de stad Zutphen. Het verleden, het heden en de toekomst: alles vloeit hier in elkaar. Tijden worden getijden en geven Zutphen op die manier een karakter dat net zo speels is als de IJssel. /// Deze fotoserie is van juli 2021 t/m september 2021 te zien geweest in tentoonstelling 'Stil 't Tij' in Dat Bolwerck te Zutphen, onderdeel van IJsselbiënale 2021.
In haar fotografie legt Sterre Arentsen de details vast van een onvatbare wereld. Dit levert beelden op die visueel vervreemdend zijn en tegelijkertijd vertrouwde ervaringen oproepen. Haar fotoserie Luwte, onderdeel van Stil 't Tij, is een emotionele tocht door de stad Zutphen. Het verleden, het heden en de toekomst: alles vloeit hier in elkaar. Tijden worden getijden en geven Zutphen op die manier een karakter dat net zo speels is als de IJssel. /// Deze fotoserie is van juli 2021 t/m september 2021 te zien geweest in tentoonstelling 'Stil 't Tij' in Dat Bolwerck te Zutphen, onderdeel van IJsselbiënale 2021.
Shiver is a body of work, made at night. The night is something that really fascinates me. All the darkness, the lack of sight, it makes me really uncomfortable. The fear I experience is what triggers me to make certain photographs. This is what fascinates me, how your emotions can affect your work. In this series, I focus on the emotion 'fear'. 2018 – 2020
Shiver is a body of work, made at night. The night is something that really fascinates me. All the darkness, the lack of sight, it makes me really uncomfortable. The fear I experience is what triggers me to make certain photographs. This is what fascinates me, how your emotions can affect your work. In this series, I focus on the emotion 'fear'. 2018 – 2020
In the summer of 2019, I followed my younger brother around with my camera. We were spending time at the swimming pool of a house we were watching over. I found out that my brother knew exactly what to do when I pointed my camera at him. He already knew what I wanted to capture before I could even think of it. He understood perfectly how to position himself in the frame before my eyes. I had never experienced such a connection between the two of us before. For a brief moment he put aside his tough, adolescent character and replaced it with everything I wanted to see. The outcome was a collection of photographs that seem to be one. A detailed description of something that cannot be described by words, cannot be seen and yet can be felt beyond boundaries. An intimate family portrait.
In the summer of 2019, I followed my younger brother around with my camera. We were spending time at the swimming pool of a house we were watching over. I found out that my brother knew exactly what to do when I pointed my camera at him. He already knew what I wanted to capture before I could even think of it. He understood perfectly how to position himself in the frame before my eyes. I had never experienced such a connection between the two of us before. For a brief moment he put aside his tough, adolescent character and replaced it with everything I wanted to see. The outcome was a collection of photographs that seem to be one. A detailed description of something that cannot be described by words, cannot be seen and yet can be felt beyond boundaries. An intimate family portrait.
‘Sterre Arentsen is a Dutch Artist, currently based in Helsinki. Her work is drawn from the observation of the relation between man and nature. She captures moments that have already passed, fragments that have outlived their time. A faded hopscotch court, hidden in a dark alley on the outskirts of the city, where no one plays anymore. A lost puzzle piece on the ground, separated from the whole to which it once belonged. Clear scenes with sharp edges, or abstract frames where color holds everything together. Various analog techniques allow her to extract more from a scene than meets the eye at first glance, in a sense turning the world inside out. People rarely appear in her images. It’s mostly lifeless objects that convey humanity in their place.’
EXHIBITONS
2023 – Art Week Vienna (AT) – group 2023 – Bucharest Photofest 2023 (RO) – group 2023 – Selected as Foam First Editions by photography museum Foam (NL) – solo 2023 – Schouwburg Hengelo (NL) – group 2022 – Buiten Westen #3 – Drawing Centre Diepenheim (NL) – group 2022 – Kunsthal Hof 88 – Almelo (NL) – group 2022 – Paris Photo – Carte Blanche Students Finalist – Paris (FR) group 2022 – Melkweg Expo – Graduation Show/Arty Party (NL) – group 2022 – AKI Finals – Enschede (NL) – group 2021 – Stil ‘t Tij – IJsselbiënale 2021 – Dat Bolwerck Zutphen (NL) – group 2021 – Herbelichting – Fotogalerie Objektief Enschede (NL) – duo 2018 – Secret 7 Contest – NOW Gallery Londen (GB) – group
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
2023 – Financieel Dagblad – Weekend Appendix (NL) 2022 – Fotofilmic – JRNL14 – Curated by Coralie Kraft – Cover/p. – Publication (magazine) (CA) 2022 – Metropolis M – Graduates Appendix – Cover/p.34 – Publication (magazine) (NL) 2022 – Carte Blanche Students Finalist – Paris Photo – Feature (FR) 2022 – VIEPA – Vienna International Photo Award – Honorable Mention – Student Award – Feature (AT) 2022 – Coup De Coeur – Incadaqués International Photo Festival – Instagram Contest Prize – Feature (ES) 2021 – Fotozomer Zutphen – IJssel-biënnale – Publication – (magazine) (NL) 2021 – LFK Magazine – winter edition – Single image – Publication (magazine) (NL) 2020 – Ce que cache la nuit – Fisheyemagazine – Feature (FR) 2020 – Encourage – Canon – Photobook – Publication (book) (FR) 2019 – Lowlands festival – Design contest – Publication (napkin) (NL)
