Birgitta De Vos: Omnipresent | Beyond Borders At The Kinfolk Gallery 2019
Thursday, December 12, 2019
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Though busy alongside pattern tours land inward Copenhagen, I had a minor window to view some additional places during my stay. The Kinfolk Gallery was high on the list, having missed out on my lastly trip to Denmark, in addition to I'm therefore glad I managed to crush it in. Having seen, admired, in addition to shared many images of the infinite since it opened around 3 years ago, it was surreal to walk through the doors in addition to finally run into it inward existent life. Designed past times Norm Architects for utilisation every bit both a gallery in addition to workspace, the interiors are serene in addition to welcoming inward a palette of muted chocolate-brown in addition to sandy tones. Restrained, yet rich inward texture, the infinite provides the perfect backdrop for exhibitions in addition to events held inward the gallery, such every bit the exhibition that was running during my visit, omnipresent | beyond borders past times Birgitta de Vos. An ode to the Earth inward the shape of tactile art, created to score the publication of her 3rd mass of photo-poetry, the exhibition provided a wonderful sense of calm, peculiarly during a hectic few days.
Birgitta de Vos started her career inward tendency forecasting alongside Li Edelkoort inward Paris, earlier moving on to launch have on labels including Just B., Bohemian in addition to Clean Cotton. She therefore taught at the Design Academy Eindhoven, earlier deciding to forge her path every bit a lensman in addition to artist. Taking fourth dimension out to locomote the world, every bit is oft the case, 1 yr became 10 years, in addition to 1 terra firma became 30. During in addition to subsequently travel, she distills her observations into beautiful photo-poetry books. “I conduct maintain to brand borders, in addition to a mass is a rattling adept border. I conduct maintain a subject in addition to I conduct maintain to run to that,” she says.
Birgitta's 3rd limited-run book, omnipresent | beyond borders follows after dressing the individual | ageless beauty in addition to out of fashion | the novel fashion. Each of these books focuses on alerting readers to a telephone substitution truth almost the natural world and our lived sense of it. In omnipresent | beyond borders, the notion that, every bit she puts it, “The world would conduct maintain rattling adept help of itself if nosotros didn’t abuse it” is at the middle of her collection of earth-based compositions.
De Vos’s pictures in addition to tendency essays conduct maintain been published inward international magazines similar Happinez, Hand/Eye in addition to PantoneView. Her run has been exhibited internationally including inward Amsterdam, New York, Basel, Marrakech in addition to Paris. De Vos currently industrial plant from a studio inward the Dutch countryside in addition to lives on a converted cargo boat inward Amsterdam.
To uncovering out to a greater extent than almost Birgitta's run in addition to books, view her website, in addition to follow @birgittadevos @birgittadevosbooks.