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This week we are featuring Still Life projects, and on Friday we finish with a 4-part Exhibition on Still Lifes!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t recall where I first encountered\u00a0Sander Vos\u2019<\/a>\u00a0still life images (AIPAD?), but I do remember stopping in my tracks. There was something immediately compelling about them that resisted a passing glance\u00a0\u00a0 His photographs have hints of Georgio Morandi\u2019s delicate paintings, MC Escher\u2019s complex illustrations, and Man Ray\u2019s Surrealist experiments, yet they ultimately feel entirely their own.<\/p>\n

Vos\u2019 photographs ask viewers to slow down, look closely, and decipher the relationships between objects, light, shadow and space.\u00a0 In today\u2019s image-saturated world, creating images that invite sustained attention is no small feat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Vos shares his process here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In Between the Shadows<\/p>\n

My work is an investigation into the mechanics of perception. I construct layered photographic images designed to disrupt \u201cautomated seeing,\u201d the way our brains quickly categorize and dismiss the world around us. By using fragmentation, collage, and shifting perspectives, I transform familiar subjects into arrangements that feel both alien and recognizable.I am interested in the moment the viewer is forced to pause, search, and reassemble meaning. In series such as Interpolation and In Between the Shadows, I treat photography not as a record of the world, but as a tool for revealing how we actively build our own reality. In these works, light, shadow, and negative space act as catalysts to interrupt habit and draw the viewer into a state of active observation.<\/p>\n

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Sander Vos <\/a>(b. 1988) is a Dutch, London-based artist who constructs layered photographic images that disrupt automated seeing. He uses fragmentation, collage, and shifting perspectives to transform familiar subjects such as portraits, still lifes, and everyday objects into dreamlike arrangements that feel both alien and recognizable.<\/p>\n

Viewers are invited to pause, search, and reassemble meaning, stepping briefly outside the illusions of constructed reality. Photography becomes not a record of the world but a tool for revealing how perception is actively assembled. Light, shadow, and negative space act as tools that interrupt habitual ways of looking and draw viewers in.<\/p>\n

Working across digital and analog processes, Vos creates compositions that resist immediate clarity. Meaning unfolds gradually, revealing the delicate relationship between reality, perception, and consciousness.<\/p>\n

Instagram: @sandervos<\/p>\n

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While you make portraits and other images besides still life, \u201cIn Between the Shadows\u201d is comprised entirely of still life images. What is it about still life that appeals to you?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really about transforming the meaning of these objects and challenging the way they are ordinarily depicted.
Visually I treat still life objects a bit like buildings, and accentuate their architectural lines and shapes. But by doing so I aim to get the viewer to relook at these objects in the way they wouldn\u2019t have before. For me they serve as a way to break our habitual ways of looking at things and reveal in visual way that multiple perspectives and realities can exist at the same time. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Sander Vos, In Between the Shadows 5<\/p>\n

Your images have a dizzying quality which makes the viewer question perception.\u00a0 Can you talk about the process of making these images?\u00a0 How much is digital and how much is analog cut and paste?<\/p>\n

The works in the series In Between the Shadows are ultimately created digitally, though they are deeply informed by physical manipulation. I work with physical objects and paper cutouts, seeking interesting angles and high-contrast lighting setups that accentuate their unique shapes. I then digitally assemble these photographs into compositions that still retain recognizable elements, but feel alien and harmonically fractured: inviting the viewer to take a moment to really assess what they\u2019re looking at.<\/p>\n

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