about art Tanya Vogelzang
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Tanya Vogelzang

(° NL, 1970)

Lives and works in The Netherlands

The work explores the transience of time and examines the interaction between individual and collective, object and environment. Central themes include memory, transformation, and the search for meaning in a constantly changing world.

It combines photography, installation, and sculpture, with paper as the primary material. Paper worlds are created, photographed, and digitally assembled into the final image. They primarily appear as monumental photographic works. Some also retain their physical form as sculptures, separate from the photographic work, thereby acquiring their own space and identity. Other objects exist solely as sculptures.

The carefully composed images breathe the stillness of timelessness. Within this stillness, space is created for reflection, and they transcend the fleeting nature of everyday life.

The presence of people is suggested, only implied. Their traces remain as silent witnesses of actions that have taken place. In this way, connections emerge between passing moments and lasting impressions. These moments unfold across diverse environments, including studios, halls, rooms, and spaces in transition.

The works are predominantly created to scale, with each element serving a specific purpose. This compactness emphasises what is essential, providing clarity and focus within the complexity of the subject. At the same time, it is the details that continue to draw the viewer in and invite deeper exploration.

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Tanya Vogelzang

(° NL, 1970)

Lives and works in The Netherlands

The work explores the transience of time and examines the interaction between individual and collective, object and environment. Central themes include memory, transformation, and the search for meaning in a constantly changing world.

It combines photography, installation, and sculpture, with paper as the primary material. Paper worlds are created, photographed, and digitally assembled into the final image. They primarily appear as monumental photographic works. Some also retain their physical form as sculptures, separate from the photographic work, thereby acquiring their own space and identity. Other objects exist solely as sculptures.

The carefully composed images breathe the stillness of timelessness. Within this stillness, space is created for reflection, and they transcend the fleeting nature of everyday life.

The presence of people is suggested, only implied. Their traces remain as silent witnesses of actions that have taken place. In this way, connections emerge between passing moments and lasting impressions. These moments unfold across diverse environments, including studios, halls, rooms, and spaces in transition.

The works are predominantly created to scale, with each element serving a specific purpose. This compactness emphasises what is essential, providing clarity and focus within the complexity of the subject. At the same time, it is the details that continue to draw the viewer in and invite deeper exploration.

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There are moments of precision that cannot, by the very nature of their genesis, be reproduced. It is not the mechanical precision of 10,000 identical cups of coffee, precision bombardment or nanotechnology.
Precision that is always different is the only real precision.

When precision is active, the minimal becomes huge, and the excessive is weighed out.

Like, in an almost identical way Tanya Vogelzang's detailed images can suddenly disappear in the bright light that contours them.

Precision is what it is not about.

by Dick Tuinder
from the publication: 'Everything is about the same size'
published to accompany the exhibition Marielle Buitendijk and Tanya Vogelzang, HEDEN 2011, The Haque (NL)