Blanco
In 2013, her work was on view at the photo museum Huis Marseille. Now, photographer Awoiska van der Molen (Groningen, 1972) has her first solo exhibition at FOAM in Amsterdam. Her photographs 'show the results of longer periods of isolation in which van der Molen permeates deeply into the being of the secluded world in which she photographs'. She stays alone at great length and sleeps out in the open to fully experience the place that she takes photographs of. With that uncompromising way of working alone, she is commanding respect.
Blanco consists of approximately fifteen high gloss photographs on barite, made in the period 2010-2015. I try to figure out whether or not her work becomes more radical, emptier, deeper black over time, but I get no answer. Hence, the idea of development and progress is at odds with what she expresses in her work: atemporality. I would like to go back soon and look at her jet black photographs once more, that are too hopeful to be disturbing.