Meet Inez de Brauw
Inez de Brauw's works draw inspiration from model houses and interior images found in lifestyle magazines. De Brauw's paintings serve as a framework, reflecting the continual migration of forms and ideas from magazines to reality and back again. To further convey this notion of migration and mirroring, she employs techniques such as ebru (water marbling), plaster, and black threads to create moire effects. These contradictions and repetitions contribute to a dreamlike mise en abyme, where historical specificity gives way to a sense of drifting within the realm of contemporary commercialism. Each element in de Brauw's work adds to the painting's sense of detachment from historical context, while exploring the relationship between desire, representation, and reality.
Inez de Brauw (1989) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. She graduated with honors, receiving her BFA from HKU Utrecht in 2014. In 2016 and 2017, she was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. De Brauw's work has been shown at Kunsthal Rotterdam, Artericambi Gallery in Verona, Italy, SBK Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam, and many others. Her work is part of multiple collections such as the ING Art Collection and the NNgroup. She was nominated for numerous awards and in 2017 she won the Young talent Award from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
Featured product
Edition of 20+1AP
- 37 x 28,5 cm
- Riso print collage with hand painted details
- Handmade lenticular lenses
- 270 gr paper (Metapaper Extrarough Warmwhite A3)
- Collage mounted on wooden panel
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Custom frame
This edition by Inez de Brauw is part of the Hallway Series. She slowly tries to step away from the 'austereness' of black and white paintings inspired by interior advertisements, by introducing color as a sign of playfulness and habitable space.
Reflecting on the continual migration of forms and mirroring of ideas from magazines to reality and back again, Inez employs materials that can better convey the idea of movement and mutation such as ebru (water marbling), plaster, and black threads to create moire effects. With this lenticular effect Inez de Brauw created a dynamic image that moves when the viewer changes position. In 21 Daisy Street, the central corridor is a passage, as a space in which movement occurs, creating infinite possibilities for storytelling.
These contradictions and repetitions contribute to a dreamlike mise en abyme, where historical specificity gives way to a sense of drifting within the realm of contemporary commercialism.
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21 Daisy Street
Unfair Amsterdam
WG-plein 13
1054 RA Amsterdam
Netherlands
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