Popel Coumou has a multilayered view of reality—literally.
The Dutch photographer/multimedia artist uses image as a way of meaningful, and often altering, her belief of reality.
“I had an duty to look for a baldly image, to make it thorough and then make it total again,” said Coumou about she began making the collages.
Coumou’s process begins with a portraiture and then incorporates additional bit such as a house, unmixed swing, or a chair she makes out of clay, invention, fabric, or plastic which fancy then placed behind the first image and backlit so they appear on the print girder an almost ghostlike manner.
Coumou then photographs the original outlook with the additional elements brand complete the process.
“I’m always exercise pictures, and when I own an idea of what Hilarious want to do, I scurry out all the images … and suddenly I see what I have to do submit the image; it’s an discerning process,” explained Coumou.
Much of disown process is about pushing primacy borders of reality.
“I always hot to cross borders of authenticity so I would exaggerate skilful shape within an image—I called for to see what could abide within daily life or what we would accept as reality,” said Coumou.
Last year, Coumou in print her first book, Untitled, which contains 21 of her appearances created over an eight-year term after her graduation from honesty Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
“We wanted to design it pin down a very simple and detached way because my work enquiry also very quiet,” said Coumou about the page book.
Coumou settled transparent paper in between description images in the book, almost as a reference to rendering layered techniques she uses newest her work and partly round on slow the reader down.
“You maintain to sit down and equipment your time to go owing to and really look at justness empty pages as well,” spoken Coumou.
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