[person_by] Hiryczuk / Van OevelenElodie HiryczukSjoerd van Oevelen
September 2021
The photographic work Gaze Multiple – Hawthorn (2021) comprises five vertical panels presented parallel to each other in a composition inspired by East Asian folding screens. The work offers a multitude of white, green and blue spheres and smudges, enacting the visual presence of hawthorn trees in full bloom. Gaze Multiple – Hawthorn explores how we sense and perceive the environment beyond ‘optical’ resemblance. To create this suggestive image the artists used a portrait lens with a big aperture to maximize the aesthetic qualities of the photographic out-of-focus (or bokeh in Japanese). The work incites a visual sensibility that emphasizes the impact of sensation, movement, color and light. The series Gaze Multiple is part of a PhD research project in which Hiryczuk and Van Oevelen investigate how a plural understanding of the gaze can offer an alternative and more complex approach to what seeing can mean for our relation with the environment.
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Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen is a collaboration between artists/ researchers Elodie Hiryczuk (1977, Avignon) and Sjoerd van Oevelen (1974, Steenbergen). They are interested in the workings of perception in humankind's relationship to nature and the landscape. The differences and similarities between Western and Eastern traditions of painting and photography deeply shape their work and thinking.
Elodie Hiryczuk Elodie Hiryczuk (b. 1977) is a French/ Dutch artist and researcher based in Amsterdam. She collaborates with Sjoerd van Oevelen under the name Hiryczuk/ Van Oevelen. Their work explores the workings of perception in humankind's relationship to nature and the landscape.
Sjoerd van Oevelen Sjoerd van Oevelen (b. 1974) is a Dutch artist and researcher based in Amsterdam. He collaborates with Elodie Hiryczuk under the name Hiryczuk/ Van Oevelen. Their work explores the workings of perception in humankind's relationship to nature and the landscape.
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Junipers, Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen, 2017
Hiryczuk / Van OevelenElodie HiryczukSjoerd van Oevelen
The project ‘Towards a Gaze Multiple’ is currently conducted by artists and PhD candidates Elodie Hiryczuk and Sjoerd van Oevelen at LUCAS Centre for the Arts in Society at Leiden University. …
