Esmée

Bruins

Esmée Bruins


Category
PR-PM-2024
Notes on image-making
2024
Exhibition
Galerie Pouloeuff

Photography is often seen as a direct representation of reality. This assumption is challenged in the works by artists Esmée Bruins and Noah van de Wetering. In the exhibition, they show new works based on the (photographic) image as representation and memory. This is expressed in various materials and different techniques, in which the transformation of the image is always central. Both makers' approach to images stems from their education in photography. First look, then frame, and then print.

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Category
PR-TW-2023
Repeatedly
Elongating the breath of a memory

2023
Commission
Sound & Vision Institute

Two documents are gathered in an orange envelope that refers to the Archive of the Sound & Vision Institute. The depot consists of five stories fully covered in orange paint. The envelope is a meeting point for the archiving code, the title, and the number of the edition. The sample pack and the work are equal attempts at keepsake, holding onto memories that will lose context over time. As a whole underlining the mortality of the things we collect and questioning the immortality of the archive.

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Category
PR-TW-2023
Two windows opening inwards
2023
Exhibition
Projectspace Lokaal

All of our memories are fragmented. We don’t truly recall the full experience of these moments but we link each fragment to another fragment to create a cohering memory. It’s only after critically looking at our full memories and noticing these (often visual) fragments that we’re able to truly look at the fragments by themselves. What do we see? Are these fragments like photographs, immovable and frozen in time?

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Category
PR-NS-2022
Nothing Seemed Out of Place
2022
Exhibition
Kunsthal Kloof


The exhibition ‘Nothing seemed out of place’ brings together two artists who dissect structures, whether that is a building or public space. An alternative construction or rather re-construction is brought into place, using different methods.

An observation of traces and fragments of maps.
Collecting outside views, bringing them closer.
To bring together, to rethink, to rearrange.

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Category
PR-MA-2021
Mapping Artifacts: Unidentified Evidence
2021

Exhibition
Fotodok - Exposure & Keep An Eye Stipend, Academie Galerie - Re: Re: Re:


Mapping artifacts: unidentified evidence is a process in which I investigate my close surroundings, based on a collection of objects found within this surrounding area. Repeated acts of collecting, arranging, and documenting lead to an investigation into establishing an event, one of which I only find the fragmented remains of.

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