By Jan Theun van Rees
60 x 30 cm, ed. 2/5, 2024
Archival pigment ink on Innova ”Soft Textured BrightWhite Photorag” and nutwood frame with museumglass

With his art, Jan Theun van Rees focuses on the appearance of space as an image, the perception of that (visualised) space in relation to the space that surrounds us. 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. He intervenes in the space, manipulates the incoming light, to emphasise the spatial qualities he experiences. These interventions have become essential to his current practice. He constructs his own spaces, his own versions of a new, not yet existing reality. A certain spatial quality is visualised by constructing a space with the sole purpose to photograph the result.

In his new series Painted Room you can step into a new reality and become mesmerised by the rays of light, colourful surroundings and mystic shadows.