Oil paintings, photography and video-installations
My artistic practice unfolds along three distinct but interconnected paths, each directed toward a different mode of experience and aspect of the self.
In my conceptual work, I explore philosophical tensions — between truth and illusion, cause and effect, presence and absence. Through minimal sculptural forms, 3D-printed objects, and installations, I stage encounters with ideas. These works are precise, ironic, and critical, often questioning the perceptual and ideological structures that shape reality. They treat art as a form of applied philosophy — embodying inquiry through material, form, and spatial experience.
In my paintings, I express a more intimate, emotional register. Through figures, fragments, and seascapes, I depict human vulnerability and the porous boundary between body and world. This work is intuitive and atmospheric — it does not explain, it evokes. It carries what cannot be said.
My photography reflects a third, quieter orientation — one that leans toward emptiness, distance, and suspension. These images are not statements, but traces. They record stillness, residue, and the nearly invisible. Photography, for me, is a way of witnessing what withdraws.
Together, these three strands form a single artistic inquiry: not into what we see, but into how we see — and how different forms give shape to different kinds of truth.
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Foto Sarah Bauwens