Linda van Boven

Visual artist and photographer Linda van Boven lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and later at the 'Academia di Belle Arti di Brera' in Milan with Luciao Fabro. Originating from her spatial vision, she has been looking more and more for the quality of color, or for that matter the lack of it, as an element with which the environment can be influenced. Her photos arecharacterized by a cinematic look. The photos form fragments of a film that will form a story in your head. The images that emerge in her work have to do with memories from her childhood and important events in her life. The overexposure of rather vague lighting and blurring in her photos approach images in your memory, fragmented and foggy. Just as after a dream only the contours of an overexposed looking film linger.

She uses often images that are familiar to everyone, images that are commonplace. The images that evoke personal memories in almost everyone. The fragments of her work unwittingly create a kind of dear narrative poem that comes to mind from the memory.