Hanne Bloot  from my life as a film

Hanne Bloot was born 1980 in Maastricht, Netherlands. She currently is in residency at the Museum of New Art in Detroit.

Bloot discovered photography in her early teens, beginning her studies at Ritvald Academy in Amsterdam at just seventeen. By the age of nineteen she was a P.S.1 grant recipient, where her series My Life As A Film (2000) was created and first exhibited.

Alongside her photographic works such as the series Alone And Not Alone (2004-present) and Hidden (2007), over the subsequent years she also made many short films.

Hanne Bloot’s application of light and color in her photography is painterly and yet contemporary at the same time, hinting at dark emotions. There is a sense of forced isolation, of two people sharing space yet disconnected, of a room within rooms.

Her work is a quiet poetry of understatement and misdirection. As our eyes drift across Bloot’s photographs in search of a resting point, we invest the dark spaces between with a symbolic value: the alienation of life in an increasingly urban world.