Hans van Wingerden
Principles of work In my conceptual work, image or stylistic characteristics do not play an important role. I consider such concepts to be outdated after postmodernism. Images have become the commonplace of mass culture. Only by providing an image with new codes or context can it escape from them: I borrow images and recompose them. It is about a representation of concepts that are regularly discussed in our contemporary visual world, but through manipulation, contextual alienation and associative reference, they produce a new visual meaning. In my photography I look for images that strike me because of the same context alienation. Not staged, but created by chance. The surprise then lies in the fact that the camera registers a moment, which stands out for its direct, sometimes absurd alienation.
