By Jan Theun van Rees
110 x 80 cm, 2024
Pigment ink on canson premium Baryta & dibond, framed with museum glass
Edition 1/3

Jan Theun van Rees is an experienced photographer. With his art, Jan Theun focuses on the appearance of space as an image, the perception of that (visualised) space in relation to the space that surrounds us. The representation of a space on the flat surface of the picture plane is always an interpretation of a certain place, even if the site is completely fictitious and exists only as an image. For more than a decade he has documented interiors with a preference for “unsightly spaces” that usually go unnoticed. For example, he has photographed hidden ('rest') spaces in striking buildings in Chicago, but also the many dismantled theatres and museums that underwent large-scale renovations in Amsterdam. Through his photographs he tries to visualise the specific qualities of those spaces. “Camera Lucida” is the catch-all term for all his artistic projects that try to visualise a connection between (interior) spaces and the outside world through incoming light.