Dubious Appeal
In Dubious Appeal, Wessels further examines
the tension between nature and industry. The flowers, colours, and shapes of these compositions seduce the viewer - but simultaneously have something threatening about them. They play with the (unconscious) appeal of enticingly designed packaging articles that have patterns and shades inspired by nature. Not everything is what it seems in these sometimes-sinister analogue photographs, what appear to be flowers may not be but could also be parts of bright packaging. Material that is destined to be thrown away finds itself amongst its figurative counterparts.
Exhibitions:
Galerie Fontana [NL] - Exploring the Fields, 2024 (Solo)
Memory Master Vincent van Gogh Garden Zundert
For this series Jacquie Maria Wessels was
invited to work in the guest studio of the Vincent van GoghHuis in Zundert, the Netherlands. After a month-long stay in the sexton's house next to the little church in Zundert where Vincent van Gogh's father preached, Jacquie Maria Wessels created works that draw onto memories of the young Vincent's likely observations. Born in Zundert, Vincent van Gogh played as a child in the garden near the church and the surrounding area where there is plenty of nature. Some of the old trees still living there today he probably used to see as a child. With this in mind, Wessels photographed this environment as you might remember it afterwards. This is usually not razor-sharp but with patches, contours and colours linked to the atmosphere of the place. The analogue photos show an impression of this nature, a subject that appeared frequently in Van Gogh's later works. The photographs are printed on XL supple moving light silk fabrics which emphasises the image of poetic elusive afterimages. In addition to these photographs, Jacquie Maria Wessels studied elements of Van Gogh's early life by drawing them and combining them with photographs.
In August 2023, the results were on show at the Van GoghGalerie of the Vincent van GoghHuis.
Exhibitions:
Vincent van GoghHuis, Zundert [NL] - Acquisitions Van Gogh AiR, 2024
Vincent van GoghGalerie, Zundert [NL]
Publications (selection):
Parool, Peter van Brummelen, 10/08/2023
Memory Master Tree Installation 2021
The 'Memory Master Tree Installation' is
an installation consisting of six works printed on thin silk from the analogue photo series Memory Master. This poetic series represents the memory of places you might have been. Mostly the memory is not clear with precise detail. It can act as an afterimage, vague sometimes veiled with tatters... The mysterious impressionist images evoke an atmosphere of vanishing memories.
The 'Memory Master Tree Installation' comprises a selection of photos concentrating on trees. Details of the trees are barely perceptible, yet each tree expresses its own nature. This installation plays with the idea that the memories may be captured by the trees as witnesses of what passes. The photos are printed on large delicate silk fabrics. The fluttering works are moved by fans, emphasizing the fragile, ephemeral and painterly character of the works.
Since 1988, Jacquie Maria Wessels has been making these Memory Masters with an analog 35mm camera. Especially from special places during her many travels around the world, but also closer to home, although the geographical context of the scenes remains indefinite.. The works in the installation were made in Nikko Japan 2018, Sicily Italy 2012, Rotterdam Netherlands 2012, Capri Italy 2016, and Cape Town South Africa 2019.
Exhibitions 'Memory Master Tree Installation 2021':
Galerie Fontana [NL] - Exploring the Fields, 2024 (Solo)
CODA Museum [NL] - Inside the Outside, 2022
BIG Art 2021 [NL] - Memory Master Tree Installation, 2021
Video's:
Video Memory Master Tree Installation CODA Museum Apeldoorn (NL)
Video Memory Master Tree Installation BIG ART (NL)
Publications
Pf Magazine no4 2022, Edo Dijksterhuis: Impressionistische herinneringen
Aesthetica Magazine, 04/08/2022
Metropolis M, Joris van den Einden, 17/09/2022
CODA Museum Exhibition Publication
Pf - Photo Magazine, 4/05/2022
ArtRabbit - Platform for contemporary art exhibitions
Kunstblijfteenraadsel - Online Art Magazine
Harm Tilman - Blog about art & architecture
Wonen360
Garage Face Installation 2022
Garage Face Installation, a composition of
six works from the analogue photo series 'Garage Stills' including: Garage Still #10.2/2017 Sri Lanka, Garage Still #10.3/2017 Sri Lanka, Garage Still #10.4/2014 Amsterdam NL, Garage Still #12.5/2017 Sri Lanka, Garage Still #03.4/2015 Amsterdam NL and Garage Still #10/2013 Amsterdam NL.
The works in this installation are a special edition within the series 'Garage Stills' and are printed XL on Metallic Dibond that reflects light. The mirror element of the works refers to the ‘hidden faces’ you can see in the works, if you look closely. The installation plays with light and motion. When you walk past the installation you can see the reflections come to live with shadows, light and dynamics.
For her project 'Garage Stills', Wessels is looking for old garages from all over the world, fascinated and intrigued by the shapes and colours of the mysterious objects she discovers along the way. In the interiors of the traditional garages she found from Amsterdam to Sri Lanka, she stages her newly discovered materials into a collage-like image. The still lifes that arise subsequently are remarkable in terms of colour and often have a playful appeal.
The still lifes shown in the 'Garage Face Installation' have a particular composition and give a face to the garages. You can feel the presence of the mechanics even though they are not in the picture, the atmosphere and the hustle and bustle of their working environment are frozen in a fixed picture.
Exhibitions 'Garage Face Installation':
Video's (selection):
Video Garage Face Installation BIG ART (NL)
Fringe Nature
For the series 'Fringe Nature' Wessels directs
her camera towards the traces of nature in the immediate vicinity of the auto repair garages. During the 'Garage Stills' project, Wessels gradually started to focus on the environment of the garages and the meagre bits of nature she found in these raw industrial areas on the outskirts of the city. Her painterly images are precisely composed and are as rough as they are poetic. The plants in the photographs, which in some places even slowly takes over the old garages, could also be seen as a reference to the changes in the car industry that are taking place.
Works from the Fringe Nature series were on show in a solo exhibition at Musée de la Photographie Charleroi (BE), in the Photo Route Staatsliedenbuurt Amsterdam (NL), and in a solo exhibition at the contemporary art museum PAN | Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli in Italy. In March 2023, Ludion (Brussels, BE) published the photography book ‘Garage Stills & Fringe Nature’. Works of the Fringe Nature series are in the collection of Musée de la Photographie Charleroi (BE).
Exhibitions 'Fringe Nature':
Galerie Fontana [NL] - Exploring the Fields, 2024 (Solo)
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi [BE] - Garage Stills & Fringe Nature (Solo)
Photo Route Staatsliedenbuurt Amsterdam - Kunsttraject [NL]
Palazzo delle Arti Napoli - PAN [IT] - 2021/2022 (Solo)
Video's (selection):
Video solo exhibition at PAN [IT]
Exhibition tour solo exhibition at PAN [IT]
Radio:
RTBF Radio – Musiq 3 | Radio interview with Xavier Canonne by Pascal Goffaux, 06/06/2023
RAMDAM Musique, Radio interview with Jacquie Maria Wessels by Eddy Piron, 06/2023
Publications (selection):
The Guardian: See things differently: the best of Photo London, by Mee-Lai Stone 14/5/2024
Financial Times: The Art Market, by Melanie Gerlis 16/5/2024
FAD Magazine: 7 highlights at photo london, by Lee Sharrock 16/5/2024
Monocle: Life through a lens 16/5/2024
Family Style, NY Based Magzine: Behind the Lens, by Elina Boeva 16/5/2024
SPHERE Magazine: Capturing the highlights of Photo London, by Candice Tucker 16/5/2024
Exibart: E iniziata Photo London 2024, by Beatrice Papotti 15/5/2024
Trebuchet Magazine: Photo London at Somerset House, by Julio Etchart 21/5/2024
9 Lives Magazine - Independant Photography Platform
ARTDOC - Photography Magazine, 1/3/2024
PROFIFOTO - Photograhy Magazine, 29/3/2024
Musée Magazine, Hanna Agro, 09/2023/
LM Magazine, Julien Damien, 01/09/2023/
Le Soir, Jean-Marie Wynants, 11/07/2023/
Shoot Magazine, Sven van Herck, 19/07/2023/
Tales of Ink and Light, Pierre François, 22/02/2024/
RTBF, Pascal Goffaux, 07/06/2023
Le Soir, Tatiana Rijks, 06/06/2023
ARTS LIBRE, Jean-Marc Bodson, 07/06/2023
Les Plats Pays, Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, 09/06/2023
Museum Pass Musées, 15/06/2023
Photo Passions, Photography Magazine
Quovadisart.be, Virginie de Borchgrave, 13/06/2023/
ARTIFICIALIS - Artwork of the month, Astrid Gallinat, 04/2023
ARTIFICIALIS - MIA Fair 2023, Astrid Gallinat, 04/2023
Collect Magazine, Jean-Marc Bodson, 11/2022
GiulianovaNews.it - Online Italian Newspaper, 4/11/2021
Tele MIA - Italian Cross-Media TV, Francesca Cavallo, 04/11/2021
Slasharts - Online Arts Magazine, Gila, 8/11/2021
Small Zine - Italian Art Magazine, 08/11/2021
Convenzionali - Art & Culture Blog, 09/11/2021
Rome Central Magazine, Luca Rossi, 10/11/2021
XXI Secolo, Federica D'Antonio, 12/11/2021
fiof - International Photography Foundation, Diego Pizi, 13/11/2021
Il Monito - Italian Newspaper, 16/11/2021
Visum News - Culture & Art Magazine, Savina Fermi, 19/11/2021
Hermes Magazine, Cristina Belloni, 24/11/2021
Corriere della Sera - Italian Newspaper, 13/12/2021
Lulop - online platform, 15/12/2021
Hestetika - Art, Design, Architecture, Fashion & Hi Tech Magazine, 15/12/2021
Finestre sull'Arte - Art Magazine, 15/12/2021
Art A Part of Culture, 18/12/2021
La Torre - Italian local newspaper, 19/12/2021
Il Mattino di Napoli - Local Newspaper, Cristina Cennamo, 23/12/2021
Arte Cultura - Italian Art Blog, 23/12/2021
Ilas Magazine - Online Culture Magazine, Marco Maraviglia, 29/12/2021
Elle Decor, Silvia Airoldi, 01/01/2022
LFI - Leica Fotografie International Magazine, 04/01/2022
exibart - interview with Jacquie Maria Wessels, Maria Gaia Redavid, 05/01/2022
Incursioni nell'Arte - Art Blog, Anna Amendolagine, 05/01/2022
il Giornale - Italian art blog, Carlo Franza, 06/01/2022
Giraitalia - Italian Events Portal
Exibart - Italian Art Magazine
Arte.it - The map of Art in Italy
The Eye of Photography - Photo Magazine
Garage Stills
For her 'Garage Stills' project Wessels is looking for traditional car repair garages
all over the world. She is fascinated and intrigued by the shapes and colours of the mysterious, to her completely unknown objects she discovers in this wonderful world. With the found attributes she creates still lifes on the spot, which she captures with an analogue camera. By extracting the objects from their natural function and arranging them in a completely new way, Wessels gives them a totally different dimension in her surprising compositions. The poetic Garage Stills with challenging colour formations and investigative staging have an attractive beauty, but are also a document of a disappearing world.
Wessels approaches this series with her documentary background in mind, however she takes the liberty in this male dominated world of rough-around-the-edges garages to move objects or to remove them and to light her staged still life. In the interiors of the old garages she found in Cambodia, Cuba, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Russia, South-Africa, Japan and Sri Lanka, she stages her newly discovered materials into a collage-like image. All garages seem to have the same stereotypical elements. Only at second glance does the viewer discover small cultural differences that can be found in the details. The still lifes that arise subsequently are remarkable in terms of colour and often have a playful appeal.
Because of science and technical development, cars have developed into computer-controlled machines. As a result, the former 'personal and organized chaos' in the garages is being replaced by sterile order, as a result of which contemporary garages increasingly start to resemble scientific laboratories. The traditional garages where manual labour is still central are slowly dying out. In the Garage Stills series you can feel the presence of the mechanics even though they are not in the picture, the atmosphere and the hustle and bustle of their working environment are frozen in a fixed picture. The old garages, which previously stood for progress and are now being overtaken by new technologies, have been recorded in this series before they will disappear.
From time to time Wessels began to capture the garages’ environment by looking for the meagre bits of nature in the immediate vicinity. With the intensive work in the garages, Wessels looked forward to nature in the long run - the counterpart of the car industry, which in some places even slowly takes over the old garages.
Works from the 'Garage Stills' series are included in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (NL), Musée de la Photograhie Charleroi (Belgium) and Huis Marseille, the museum for photography in Amsterdam (NL). The 'Garage Stills' were on show in a solo exhibition at Musée de la Photograhie Charleroi (BE), at the Rijkmuseum Amsterdam (NL) in the group exhibition 'New Horizons - Modern Photography at the Rijksmuseum', in the Photo Route Staatsliedenbuurt Amsterdam (NL) and in a solo exhibition at the contemporary art museum PAN | Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli in Italy and were among others on show at Galerie Baudelaire in Antwerpen. Furthermore they were selected for the group exhibition 'Photography Extended', which showed the latest development in the area of Dutch staged photography in Museum het Valkhof in Nijmegen and were chosen for the photography festival Encontros da Imagem 2017 in Braga (Portugal), with a special presentation. In March 2023, Ludion (Brussels, BE) published the photography book ‘Garage Stills & Fringe Nature’.
Exhibitions 'Garage Stills':
Galerie Fontana [NL] - Exploring the Fields, 2024 (Solo)
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi [BE] - Garage Stills & Fringe Nature (Solo)
Photo Route Staatsliedenbuurt Amsterdam - Kunsttraject [NL]
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2022 [DE]
Palazzo delle Arti Napoli - PAN [IT] - 2021/2022 (Solo)
Project 2.0/Gallery [NL] - 2019
Galerie Baudelaire on Tour [NL] - 2019
MIA Photo Fair Milan [IT] - 2019
Galerie Baudelaire [BE] - 2018 (Solo)
Encontros da Imagem Braga [PT] - 2017
Photography Extented III - Museum het Valkhof Nijmegen [NL] - 2016
Video's (selection):
Video solo exhibition at PAN [IT]
Exhibition tour solo exhibition at PAN [IT]
Radio:
RTBF Radio – Musiq 3 | Radio interview with Xavier Canonne by Pascal Goffaux, 06/06/2023
RAMDAM Musique, Radio interview with Jacquie Maria Wessels by Eddy Piron, 06/2023
Publications (selection):
The Guardian: See things differently: the best of Photo London, by Mee-Lai Stone 14/5/2024
Financial Times: The Art Market, by Melanie Gerlis 16/5/2024
FAD Magazine: 7 highlights at photo london, by Lee Sharrock 16/5/2024
Monocle: Life through a lens 16/5/2024
Family Style, NY Based Magzine: Behind the Lens, by Elina Boeva 16/5/2024
SPHERE Magazine: Capturing the highlights of Photo London, by Candice Tucker 16/5/2024
Exibart: E iniziata Photo London 2024, by Beatrice Papotti 15/5/2024
Trebuchet Magazine: Photo London at Somerset House, by Julio Etchart 21/5/2024
9 Lives Magazine - Independant Photography Platform
ARTDOC - Photography Magazine, 1/3/2024
PROFIFOTO - Photograhy Magazine, 29/3/2024
Musée Magazine, Hanna Agro, 09/2023/
LM Magazine, Julien Damien, 01/09/2023/
Le Soir, Jean-Marie Wynants, 11/07/2023/
Pf Magazine no4 2022, Edo Dijksterhuis: Impressionistische herinneringen
Shoot Magazine, Sven van Herck, 19/07/2023/
Trouw, Harmen van Dijk, 01/07/2023
Dutch Culture, Astrid Mörk, 03/07/2023/
Tales of Ink and Light, Pierre François, 22/02/2024/
Mu in the city, Gilles Bichet, 01/07/2023/
RTBF, Pascal Goffaux, 07/06/2023
Le Soir, Tatiana Rijks, 06/06/2023
ARTS LIBRE, Jean-Marc Bodson, 07/06/2023
Les Plats Pays, Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, 09/06/2023
Museum Pass Musées, 15/06/2023
Photo Passions, Photography Magazine
Quovadisart.be, Virginie de Borchgrave, 13/06/2023/
Collect Magazine, Jean-Marc Bodson, 11/2022
Tagesspiegel, Michaela Nolte, 12/09/2022
The Times News, Harshita Mehta, 13/09/2022
The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, Mattie Boom, 15/03/2022
GiulianovaNews.it - Online Italian Newspaper, 4/11/2021
Tele MIA - Italian Cross-Media TV, Francesca Cavallo, 04/11/2021
Slasharts - Online Arts Magazine, Gila, 8/11/2021
Small Zine - Italian Art Magazine, 08/11/2021
Convenzionali - Art & Culture Blog, 09/11/2021
Rome Central Magazine, Luca Rossi, 10/11/2021
XXI Secolo, Federica D'Antonio, 12/11/2021
fiof - International Photography Foundation, Diego Pizi, 13/11/2021
Il Monito - Italian Newspaper, 16/11/2021
Visum News - Culture & Art Magazine, Savina Fermi, 19/11/2021
Hermes Magazine, Cristina Belloni, 24/11/2021
Corriere della Sera - Italian Newspaper, 13/12/2021
Lulop - online platform, 15/12/2021
Hestetika - Art, Design, Architecture, Fashion & Hi Tech Magazine, 15/12/2021
Finestre sull'Arte - Art Magazine, 15/12/2021
Art A Part of Culture, 18/12/2021
La Torre - Italian local newspaper, 19/12/2021
Il Mattino di Napoli - Local Newspaper, Cristina Cennamo, 23/12/2021
Arte Cultura - Italian Art Blog, 23/12/2021
Ilas Magazine - Online Culture Magazine, Marco Maraviglia, 29/12/2021
Elle Decor, Silvia Airoldi, 01/01/2022
LFI - Leica Fotografie International Magazine, 04/01/2022
exibart - interview with Jacquie Maria Wessels, Maria Gaia Redavid, 05/01/2022
Incursioni nell'Arte - Art Blog, Anna Amendolagine, 05/01/2022
il Giornale - Italian art blog, Carlo Franza, 06/01/2022
Giraitalia - Italian Events Portal
Exibart - Italian Art Magazine
Arte.it - The map of Art in Italy
The Eye of Photography - Photo Magazine
Art A Part Of Culture, Luca Sorbo, 15/10/2021
The Mammoth Reflex, 06/10/2021
Phototrend - Online Photo Magazine, Jodie Wtulich, 18/02/2021
Atelier Néerlandais, 09/02/2021
Editions Photoart - Curated Content on Photography
Lost Painters - Online Art Magazine, Niek Hendrix, 30/09/2020
Fotoexpositie.nl - Online Photo Magazine
Kunstblijfteenraadsel - Online Art Magazine
Fotoexpositie.nl - Online Photo Magazine
Corriere della Sera - Italian Newspaper
Widewalls - Online art platform & magazine
Artificialis - Online art platform, Astrid Gallinat
ARTIFICIALIS - Artwork of the month, Astrid Gallinat, 12/2018
MUSEUMTIJDSCHRIFT - Arts Magazine
Architektur Journalisten, 12/10/2018
Deconarch - Magazine on ARTitecure, Simone Kraft, 12/10/2018
Museumtijdschrift - Arts Magazine
Kooness - online fine art platform
Photography is Art - Photo Magazine, 06/2018
Collect Magazine, Elena Lombardo, Summer 2018
Exhibition catalogue Photography Extended III
Cityscapes, 2008
In Paramaribo, the main city of Suriname,
Jacquie Maria Wessels photographed city scenes, dominated by the typically Surinamese wall paintings. This carefully composed photo series is sometimes alienating and surreal. The works show how residents of the city appropriate the space and capture a cultural and economic image of time in Paramaribo. The hand-painted advertisements contain hyper-realistic images of, among other things, tools, soup cans, oatmeal, sausages and incentives such as 'Do your best at school' .....
Recently, this series was on show in the Photo Route Bijlmer, an outdoor exhibition with 50 large format photographs in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost and last year in a solo exhibition in the Surinamese Museum in Paramaribo.
The analogue photographed series 'Cityscapes' is published in the Photo Book ‘Cityscapes + Birdmen’ by Voetnoot publishers in Antwerp Belgium and internationally by Idea Books. ISBN 978-90-78068-662 The Book won two final awards in the international book awards (USA) in 2011.
Exhibitions 'Cityscapes':
Photo Route Staatsliedenbuurt Amsterdam - Kunsttraject [NL]
Visserhallen IJmuiden (NL) - 2022
Photo Route Bijlmer [NL] - 2018
Galerie Baudelaire [BE] - City & Landscapes, 2010
Publications (selection):
Noordhollands Dagblad, 17/05/2022
Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren - blog
NRC HANDELSBLAD - Daily Dutch Newspaper
PAROOL - Daily Dutch Newspaper
MUSEUMTIJDSCHRIFT - Arts Magazine
DIGIFOTOPRO - Photography Magazine
Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren
BARENDS AND PIJNAPPEL PHOTO COLLECTION
DAGBLAD SURINAME - Surinam Newspaper
DIGIPHOTOPRO - Photography Magazine
WERKGROEP CARAÏBISCHE LETTEREN
DECONARCH - Magazine on Art & Architecture
TIMES OF SURINAME - Surinam newspaper
Catalogue Photo Biennale Greece 2010
Video's (selection):
AT5 TELEVISION, 22/6/2018 – Photo Route Bijlmer
The Birdman, 2006 - 2009
This series shows portraits made in Suriname
and the Netherlands, of many macho Surinamese men who are obsessed with their little songbirds. The ‘caged bird’ is the leading actor in songbird contests. In this ‘most popular sport in Suriname’ men from all segments of the population come together amiably, in peaceful combat over which bird sings the best and who wins the first prize. Stereotypical male attributes such as clothing, cars and motorcycles play an important role in this lifestyle but in the photographs by Jacquie Maria Wessels the men also reveal another side of themselves.
After the independence of Suriname in 1975 this pastime came to the Netherlands along with the Surinamese people. Both in Suriname and the Netherlands the contests are held very early on Sunday mornings: in Paramaribo on Independence Square, over to the Suriname River, and in the Netherlands on lawns in parks, especially designated for this, in Amsterdam, The Hague and other cities.
Recently, this series was on show in the Photo Route Bijlmer, an outdoor exhibition with 50 large format photographs in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost and in 2017 in a solo exhibition in the Surinamese Museum in Paramaribo. In 2010 the series ‘Birdman’ was on show at the PhotoBienniale in Greece in the main exhibition ‘Topos’ and in 2010/2011 it was part of the 'PhotoBienniale Restrospective' at the Museum of Photography Thessaloniki in Greece.
The analogue on 6x6 series 'The Birdman' is published in the Photo Book ‘Cityscapes + Birdmen’ by Voetnoot Publishers in Antwerp Belgium and internationally by Idea Books. ISBN 978-90-78068-662 The Book won two final awards in the international book awards (USA) in 2011.
Exhibitions 'Birdmen':
Three Little Birds [NL] - 2020
Photo Route Bijlmer [NL] - 2018
Museum of Photography Thessaloniki [GR] - 2010
PhotoBiennale 2010 [GR] - 2010
Publications (selection):
Parool - Daily Dutch Newspaper
NRC HANDELSBLAD - Daily Dutch Newspaper
PAROOL - Daily Dutch Newspaper
MUSEUMTIJDSCHRIFT - Arts Magazine
DIGIFOTOPRO - Photography Magazine
Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren
DAGBLAD SURINAME - Surinam Newspaper
DIGIPHOTOPRO - Photography Magazine
WERKGROEP CARAÏBISCHE LETTEREN
DECONARCH - Magazine on Art & Architecture
TIMES OF SURINAME - Surinam newspaper
Catalogue Photo Biennale Greece 2010
Video's (selection):
AT5 TELEVISION, 16/03/2023 – Pikoletstraat
Video Photo Exhibitions at JIPFest 2022
AT5 TELEVISION, 22/6/2018 – Photo Route Bijlmer
Radio:
Living Spaces, 1999 - 2009
In ‘Living Spaces’ Jacquie Maria Wessels
portrayed inhabitants inside their homes. Subsequently she mounted the exterior and surroundings of their houses around these portraits. It resulted in a spatial experience of the inhabitants' way of life.
With this series Wessels shows us how people live and sheds light on their different lifestyles. The living spaces and their inhabitants form an integrated whole. Through combining the exterior of the houses with the interior she gives the viewer a personal insight and creates a layered image of the inhabitants.
This analogue photographed series has been exhibited amongst others at the Dutch Photo Festival in Naarden, the Noorderlicht Photo Festival in Groningen in the main exhibition ‘Sense of Space’, the Pride Photo Award Exhibition in Amsterdam and the New York Photo Festival in the US. This series is part of the Art Collection of the Province of Noord-Holland in The Netherlands.
Exhibitions
Noord-Hollands Archief [NL] - Doc.Werk, 2022
ART Gent [BE] - Dutch Art, 2012
New York Photo Festival [US] - Dutch Delight, 2011
Park Gallery Hoorn [NL] - Summer exhibition, 2010
Pride Photo Award Exhibition - Het Sieraad Amsterdam [NL], 2010
Outside open air exhibition - Homomonument Westermarkt Amsterdam [NL], 2009
Noorderlicht Photofestival [NL] - Sense of Space, 2001
Provinciehuis Noord-Holland [NL] - Documentary Commissions, 1999/2000
Photo Festival Naarden [NL] - Documentary Commissions N-H, 1999
Publications
Fotoexpositie.nl, Peter van de Wijngaart, 29/04/2011
RTL Nieuws, Annemiek van Grondel, 19/02/2010
De Foto-Documentaire Opdrachten van de Province Noord-Holland
Brazil, 2001
Family at home
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Memory Master, 1988 - now
This series represents the memory of places
you might have been. Mostly the memory is not clear with precise detail. It can work as an afterimage, vague sometimes with patches...
The subjects in these photo works are mostly landscapes. Wessels made them with an analogue 35mm camera during her travels but also in the neighbourhood where she lives.
Exhibitions 'Memory Master':
Galerie Fontana [NL] - Exploring the Fields, 2024 (Solo)
Vincent van GoghHuis, Zundert [NL] - Acquisitions Van Gogh AiR, 2024NDSM Fuse Amsterdam [NL] - Aqua Ardens Water en Vuur, 2024
Van GoghGalerie [NL] - Memory Master #1-07/23, Vincent van Gogh, Zundert, 2023
CODA Museum [NL] - Inside the Outside, 2022
BIG Art 2021 [NL] - Memory Master Tree Installation, 2021
Galerie Baudelaire [BE] - City + Landscapes, 2010
Park Gallery Hoorn [NL] - Summer exhibition, 2010
Fürth Stadttheater [DE] - 4 artists from Amsterdam - In Motion, 2001
SBK Westerpark Amsterdam [NL] - Purchased Works, 1999
Amsterdam Museum [NL] - Het Gewelf - Photo Works, 1989
Publications
Parool, Peter van Brummelen, 10/08/2023
Pf Magazine no4 2022, Edo Dijksterhuis: Impressionistische herinneringen
Aesthetica Magazine, 04/08/2022
Metropolis M, Joris van den Einden, 17/09/2022
CODA Museum Exhibition Publication
Pf - Photo Magazine, 4/05/2022
ArtRabbit - Platform for contemporary art exhibitions
Kunstblijfteenraadsel - Online Art Magazine
Harm Tilman - Blog about art & architecture
Wonen360
Street Portraits U.S., 1996 - 1997
In 1996/1997 Wessels made a road trip from
San Diego to San Francisco. During this trip Wessels photographed the people she came across within the public spaces of the cities she visited.
With this series Wessels wants to give an overview of the inhabitants and visitors of the cities in their social surroundings. Wessels captured with her analogue camera the people in different urban settings, showing the diversity of people within a city.
Amsterdam, 1994
‘Eating in Public Places’, was shot in
Amsterdam and focuses on the social context of eating. Not the eating itself is here important, but the diversity and interacting of people while they are eating.
‘Amsterdam Eating’ is an idea of Wessels and was commissioned in 1994 by Amsterdam’s Fonds voor de Kunst and Municipal Archives of Amsterdam. This series has been exposed and published in several ways i.e. Amsterdam’s Historisch Museum, as a weekly supplement in the nationwide Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and in the book ‘Dutch Eyes, A critical history of photography in the Netherlands'(2007).
Stadsarchief Gemeente Amsterdam - Eating in Public Places
Publication
Ons Amsterdam: Foto's voor de stad