In the group exhibition CONSTRUCT at our pop-up space in Nijmegen, we showcase artworks by Femke Dekkers, Jannemarein Renout, Kuno Grommers, and Marleen Sleeuwits. Through their work, photography is explored as a medium that shifts between reality and illusion. Each artist challenges the viewer to reconsider everyday perception.
Femke Dekkers plays with perspective and perceptual manipulation. Rather than concealing her interventions, she reveals the constructed nature of her photographed sets. Using hybrid materials such as ceramics, paper, wood, and paint, she creates tension between sculptural structures and pictorial space, investigating photography’s sculptural and painterly potential.
Jannemarein Renout questions photographic authorship through self-built devices. In her ongoing project SCAN_2400, the scanners respond to daylight. Light, motion, and time generate images beyond deliberate composition. By minimizing her own control, Jannemarein grants agency to the medium itself.
Kuno Grommers uses analogue photography to explore spatial dynamics. Through geometric forms, bold color fields, and a precise interplay of light and shadow, he creates installations that appear to defy gravity. His optical illusions emerge without digital manipulation, testing the limits of perception.
Marleen Sleeuwits focuses on impersonal, everyday spaces. Her practice evolved from photographing such environments to physically intervening in them. By reusing architectural materials and playing with scale and perspective, she blurs the boundary between two-dimensional image and spatial installation, questioning the visual stability of reality.
