Tessa R Groenewoud
(Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands)
Master Fine Art, Media Art, School of Arts (KASK)
Ghent, Belgium
2014 – 2016
Art Science, University of Ghent
Ghent, Belgium
2007 – 2008
BA Fine Art, Royal Academy of Visual Arts (KABK)
The Hague, The Netherlands
1998 – 2003
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Tessa R Groenewoud's work consists of diary-like excerpts, often printed on small-scale single-edition gelatin silver prints (or in editions limited to 5 or 7). The source of these pictures are slices of life, captured in the immediate and intimate environment of the artist. They spring from the everyday scenes of personal life and relationships, and show banal details of objects and surfaces, fragments of bodies and interactions, encountered landscapes and familiar spaces. But these images function not only as fixed moments of captured reality -- they reflect just as well on the process of image-making and the medium of photography itself. References to time and touch are recurrent; a lightness of being that is confronted with matter and fixation. A hint of ritual and repetition meets a poetic concentration.