ARTIST STATEMENT

Photography for me is a way of looking at the world around me in a different way. It’s like discovering the world over and over again, if we look closely there are always new or different things to discover.  

Analogue photography slows me down, I try to create a certain stillness in the images which leaves space for visual details that emphasize the beauty of the, at first sight, ordinary subjects. I have always been fascinated with the little things in life, this is a returning subject in most of my series.

Photographing creates a visual consciousness for me, in which I unconsciously look for moments that depict something estranged or surrealistic, like in dreams, to create a new reality.  With the surrealistic approach in my work I am trying to search for the limits of the impossible. When I was younger I dreamed about freezing time, this dream, is in a way, achievable with photography. 

BIOGRAPHY

Inge Trienekens
Born in 1987, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Inge Trienekens, attended the Master of Fine Art Photography at the IED in Madrid, Spain. She got her Bachelor of Design degree, specialized in Photography, at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2013).

Trienekens’ has worked as a photography intern for Mitsuko Nagone in Tokyo, Japan (2012-2013) and participated in an international exchange program at the CAFA, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China (2011-2012).  Her work is dedicated to the small things in life, which are inspired by seemingly ordinary objects and daily situations. With a surrealistic approach, she shows fragility and at the same time, the strength of nature in her work. 

Trienekens’ work was, amongst others, exhibited at 5plus5 Photographer’s Wall in Birmingham (2015) and at the group exhibition 5plus5 in Gallery Larra in Madrid (2014). 5plus5 is a collaboration between IED Madrid & GRAIN Photography Library. Her work was exhibited, amongst others at Photoville – Alive! New York City, USA (2014). Trienekens’ work was published in GUP’s New Dutch Photography Talent book and part of the group exhibition, held at the GUP Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013). She exhibited in a group exhibition at the Tokyo Arts Gallery in Tokyo, Japan (2013) and participated at Phototown in collaboration with FOAMLab in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013). Trienekens’ had her first two solo exhibitions in collaboration with the ING Bank, at the ING House, Art & Insurance department (Amsterdam, 2013) And at the ING Nationale-Nederlanden Headquarters (Rotterdam, 2013-2014).