Antoinette Nausikaä, about

ABOUT MY WORK

Observing Culture-Nature

Growing up in a family of aerial photographers I learned from early age how to observe the world around me and to zoom in and out from it. Driven by a personal need to find order, pureness and stillness within a turbulent and rapidly changing world, I'm exploring interconnectedness within our everyday environment. My research takes the form of publications, installations and workshops in wich I want to invite the viewer to slow down and offer a space for reflection on stilness, time, nature and wonder within our everyday fleeting and chaotic environment.

I work on long-term site specific projects in places where nature and culture coincide. It is the harmony between the two that facinates me. In the project Breathing Mountains (2018) I investigated the relation between humans and nature at far away sacred mountains. In my latest project A River Runs Through Me, I have switched focus from unspoilt nature to the city. The ultimate symbol of human civilization.While cities are generally regarded as separated from nature, I am keenly aware of the way the two are inextricably intertwined. Currently I am working on my new artist-book "bird, plane, butterfly".

In 2010 I completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2008 I was awarded the "Bouw In Beeld Photography Award", the book Breathing Mountains was nominated "Best Photography Book of the Year" at Photo Espana in 2019. In 2020 I was nominated for "The Somfy Photography Award 2020".

My work is represented by Gallery Caroline O'Breen Amsterdam

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TEXTS

Interview over vertragen en stilte voor Bodhitv door Bay Hagebeek

Interview Welikeart

pdf essay for Breathing Mountains by Hans den Hartog Jager writer/curator/art critic/historian

pdf text by Annewieke Vroom philosopher of religion

pdf text by Julia Geerlings curator/writer

pdf text (NL) by Tineke Reijnders writer/historian

pdf openings text (NL) by Joke Hermsen philosopher/writer

CONTACT

Studio Antoinette Nausikaä
WGplein 9
1054 RA Amsterdam, NL