Eva Roovers

Eva Roovers has a background in both Fine Art and Photography, working with both international galleries and brands. 

She devoted this last year to her ongoing multimedia project Moving Moments in Time.

CV

Exhibitions
Solo:
2016 Abstract Stills, 44 Gallery, Brugge BE
2014 Tornen aan de Grenzen, Dapirian, Urecht NL
Group:
2019 Nieuwe aanwinsten, HEDEN, Den Haag NL
2019 It was a pleasure, DAK, Utrecht NL
2018 WIP, Royal College of Art, London UK
2018 Red, Yellow & Neon, Galerie 1 SBK, KNSM, Amsterdam NL
2018 DAK, duo-show with Annegret Kellner, Amsterdam NL
2017 New Dutch Photography talent, VT Art Salon,Taipei TW
2017 Jong&Veelbelovend, Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk NL
2017 Temporary Farewell, Witteveen Visual Art, Amsterdam NL
2016 Update16, Kronpinzenpaleis, Berlin DE
2015 YIP art, Christie's, Amsterdam NL
2015 Marque Page, Havas Arles Gallery, Arles FR
2015 Formations, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam NL
2015 Grand Opening, Seelevel, Amsterdam NL
2015 Strange Cities, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens GR
2014 Marque Page, Havas Worldwide, Paris FR
2014 New Dutch Photography Talent, GUP Gallery, Amsterdam NL
2014 Orchestrated Coincidence, Seelevel, Amsterdam NL

Art fairs
2019 Art on Paper, Heden, Amsterdam NL
2018 Art Paris, Promises section, Paris FR
2017 Zes voor 6, Loods 6, Amsterdam NL
2017 PAN, Rutger Brand, Amsterdam NL
2016 PAN, campaign image, Amsterdam NL

Award, nominations, selections
2017 FOAM Selection for Mondriaan Museum
2017 Talent Award, Prins Bernard CultuurFonds
2016 FOAM selection for PAN artfair campaign
2016 Gosee Award Berlin - Gold in Stills
2014 New Dutch Photography talent 2014

Publications
2018 Book: Pallete Perfect: Color Combinations.by Lauren Wager
2016 Newspaper: Parool 19-11 interview
2016 Print: PAN Magazine, article 8 pages
2016 Radio: Opium - Torenkamer, radio 4, 21oktober
2014 TV: Avro Kunstuur - 2 march   

Moving Moments in Time

Speeding or slowly creeping forwards, moments overlap and give rise to yet unknown possibilities, morphing into new outlines. 

Similarly Roovers composes visually. Partly planned, but leaving much open to change, working with displacement and attraction, the new forms arise by morphing seemingly loose elements into new harmonious entities, that function for the next step in the procces.  

All the time progressing, crawling back into itself like a feedback loop, which moves like Slime.

A longing for a past that is not present.

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The transcending nature of a material such as a formless entity like slime, that gathers but doesn’t stick, serves as a philosophical answer to a closed system.

My work is created from an intuitive instinct that first arises in an abstract, clearly outlined form; often voluptuous and playful with a sense of clumsiness.

Here you could see the movement from nothingness to being. However, beyond this direct play, the real added value is often to be found inthe ideological study that transcends the chosen form to a new liberating dimension.

Formless could be a representation of metamorphism like the shredding of skin, or remaining stable in its form as a feedback loop; constantly folding into itself while not necessarily expanding outwardly but rather/hopefully an inner-journey of transformation.

Never ending, never starting but in constant flux, matter and form are in constant movement posing questions about what reality really is. 

Lucretius speaks about Venus, a goddess who creates, but is not divided from or beyond that which she creates. She is fully immanent. Venus is not only the external object of desire, she is desire herself. Hence she can be seen as both the process and object. Venus is the immanent process of desire/pleasure, which desires itself.

With a tessellation of colour, the light is sculpted around the elements and strengthens the individual presence, shaping doubles through shadow and in its reflection.

 I have worked on the conjunctions between light and forms, during the RCA in the project Moving Moments inTime, (and throughout all my previous photography works I realize in hind-sight), forming a Hegelian understanding of Becoming. Creating multiple doubling, and working with an internal affect of psychological projection, about the other.

With this project I aim to provide my audience with a key but not the answer (!) to a closed system, more like a possible answer to the absurdity of the world. Where I apply a metaphysical interpretation of reality, inspired by existentialistic influences.  

Bruises,
clouds, thoughts and body parts.  

Reflection,
affect, interaction, objectification, desire, the Real and its double and
otherness. 

Attaining a transitional state from perception to imagination, you have to be flexible. Be willing to let go of what you think you know and be open. To gather like the Bricoleur with a sense of curiosity, not afraid to run into something Weird or merely focused on the outcome, but rather enjoy it’s journey.

Eva Roovers 

RCA 2020 - MA Sculpture