Art & Photography: Rachel de Joode

Rachel de Joode is a Dutch artist and photographer living and working in Berlin. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam from 1996-2000. Her work has appeared in art and fashion magazines such as VORN, Sleek, Picnic and Domus Magazine. She has exhibited in Berlin, Amsterdam, Xiamen, Oslo and Houston, TX. Of her work she writes, ‘My artistic intention is to decipher human existence in absurd and surreal ways through sculptural installations, performance and photography. I seek to portray the otherworldliness in the most profane aspects of our world. My work depicts people and objects, and their performative gesture. Through exploring the balance between the mystical subconscious and the rational of the every day, my work can be described as slice-of-life Magical Realism’.