“Pictures of Her” is about a fun but equally distressing game played by a photographer mother and her daughter, a journey to the subconscious of childhood.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY AIMÉE HOVING
Porcelain cups inside a spacious room, drenched in daylight, in startling placidity and acceptance. Aimée Hoving is the name behind the image. Her work portrays her inner world as much as it does the story of the model enacting the realm. Despite being captured in different settings, every image in the artist’s Pictures of Her series features the same mysterious face: that of Hoving’s daughter, Flavia.
Born in Belgium in 1978, Hoving has been a resident of Geneva from a young age. She admits that her work bears traces of both cultures and that space is one of her greatest artistic inspirations. The locations in her photographs are either familiar places or settings that jumped out of her childhood memories. The space in Hoving’s images occasionally transforms the photograph into the work of a painter. Based on the familiar, the fancied or the dreamt, the spaces recreated by a child’s performance become stories which combine Hoving’s childhood memories with Flavia’s presence and interpretations. This is a lucid game between mother and child, embalmed with a touch of inspiration from Velazquez’s portraits or Vermeer’s light trickeries.
“Pictures of Her” is about a fun but equally distressing game played by a photographer mother and her daughter, a journey to the subconscious of childhood.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY AIMÉE HOVING
Porcelain cups inside a spacious room, drenched in daylight, in startling placidity and acceptance. Aimée Hoving is the name behind the image. Her work portrays her inner world as much as it does the story of the model enacting the realm. Despite being captured in different settings, every image in the artist’s Pictures of Her series features the same mysterious face: that of Hoving’s daughter, Flavia.
Born in Belgium in 1978, Hoving has been a resident of Geneva from a young age. She admits that her work bears traces of both cultures and that space is one of her greatest artistic inspirations. The locations in her photographs are either familiar places or settings that jumped out of her childhood memories. The space in Hoving’s images occasionally transforms the photograph into the work of a painter. Based on the familiar, the fancied or the dreamt, the spaces recreated by a child’s performance become stories which combine Hoving’s childhood memories with Flavia’s presence and interpretations. This is a lucid game between mother and child, embalmed with a touch of inspiration from Velazquez’s portraits or Vermeer’s light trickeries.
“Pictures of Her” is about a fun but equally distressing game played by a photographer mother and her daughter, a journey to the subconscious of childhood.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY AIMÉE HOVING
Porcelain cups inside a spacious room, drenched in daylight, in startling placidity and acceptance. Aimée Hoving is the name behind the image. Her work portrays her inner world as much as it does the story of the model enacting the realm. Despite being captured in different settings, every image in the artist’s Pictures of Her series features the same mysterious face: that of Hoving’s daughter, Flavia.
Born in Belgium in 1978, Hoving has been a resident of Geneva from a young age. She admits that her work bears traces of both cultures and that space is one of her greatest artistic inspirations. The locations in her photographs are either familiar places or settings that jumped out of her childhood memories. The space in Hoving’s images occasionally transforms the photograph into the work of a painter. Based on the familiar, the fancied or the dreamt, the spaces recreated by a child’s performance become stories which combine Hoving’s childhood memories with Flavia’s presence and interpretations. This is a lucid game between mother and child, embalmed with a touch of inspiration from Velazquez’s portraits or Vermeer’s light trickeries.
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POSITOPIA
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is a large format international biannual magazine from Istanbul. Focusing on arts, culture and society, each issue tackles various universal subjects within a distinct theme.
Address
Mim Kemal Öke Cad. No.6 D.6 Nişantaşı, Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey
+90 212 232 4288
contact@212magazine.com
POSITOPIA
17
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is a large format international biannual magazine from Istanbul. Focusing on arts, culture and society, each issue tackles various universal subjects within a distinct theme.
Address
Mim Kemal Öke Cad. No.6 D.6 Nişantaşı, Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey
+90 212 232 4288
contact@212magazine.com