Full Description
"Atlas of Echoes is the first monograph on the work of Dutch
artist Sarah van Rij. The book immerses the reader in her
entire oeuvre, bringing together her black-and-white and
colour photography, as well as the collages created since
2018, and in doing so charts the journey from her beginnings
as a photographer to her most recent work. Whether
captured on a camera or an iPhone, her images explore a
wide range of subjects — urban and natural landscapes,
everyday objects, the human figure - at the same time as
they advocate the singular and coherent aesthetic that has
become the artist's visual signature.
With a vivid imagination and a keen eye for detail, she
transforms reality into a timeless, dreamlike world; and
through her delicate framing, its point of view jostled about
by shadow and reflection, she composes with a subtle
game of recurring motifs: hands, shoes, profiles, traffic
lights. These shapes serve as clues, visual echoes that run
through her entire oeuvre, linking together her images like
the fragments of a puzzle that sketches out the map of her
poetics.
Designed in close collaboration with the artist, with an index
offering an analytical and playful reading of her work, Atlas
of Echoes reveals the singular formal vocabulary behind van
Rij's practice."
