Annick Geenen (°1970, BE) is a fine art photographer and lecturer at LUCA School of Arts.
Thematically her work concentrates on our dealing with time, perception and the phenomenological depth embodied therein, and disclosed thereby. Her artistic practice brings together various characters from the past and the present, who manifest as traces and memories into her multi-layered works.
Annick Geenen navigates through multiple references and fields of knowledge. With a background in fine arts photography, she focuses on new ways of storytelling in which she investigates the tradition of the portrait genre. She keeps seeking for different angles attempt to instigate a relation between contradicting concepts and perceptions about light and shadow and the sensitive, sacred powerful gestures between woman and man.
Her images are evocatively staged. Working slowly and methodically, she explores the notion of authenticity and what it means to be yourself through her images. She breaks thereby the genre conventions open of the fashion photograph by allowing her models the individual gaze of the portrait. By engaging the imperfections with all its flaws and potentials, she embraces its fragility as well as its capacity for care and resistance. Her references to the point-of-view, the staging and placement of the characters, the delay and disclosure mechanics question how we experience its longterm sensorial experience.
INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATION
She has forged multiple collaborations with various editors, choreographers, fashion designers,... including Veronique Branquinho, Raf Simons, Heaven Tanudiredja, Alex Schrijvers, Harvey Bouterse, Wouter Hoste, Revital Avidar, Hideki Seo, Ilia Eckardt, Hilde Frunt, Essential Antwerp, Scabal, Luciano Benetton, Eastpak, Walter Van Beirendonck, Modenatie Antwerp, Anke Loh, Kathleen Missotten, Kyoko Baertsoen, Jan Fabre, Wim Vandekeybus, Casimir, Anne Pastré, Veronique Leroy, Jean-Paul Knott, Delvaux, The Flanders Fashion Institute (FFI) and many more. Annick Geenen's work appeared in exhibitions at Colette Paris, Vooruitzicht Antwerp, the Fashion Museum Hasselt and Antwerp, De Warande Turnhout, Gallery S & H De Buck, Campo & Campo Art gallery, the Flemish Parliament and various cultural centres in Flanders. Her photographs have been published in VISION magazine, Kwintessens, ISEL art and culture magazine, dS Magazine, Knack Weekend, Knack magazine, Blend, AAA art magazine, De Lichte Kamer (Garant), Designers Against Aids (Ludion), Moi Veronique Branquinho Toute Nue (MoMu) , Delvaux (Lannoo), Contradictions: 350 Years Antwerp Academy, The Fashion Book (Phaidon), The Rage of Staging (Lannoo), …
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Annick Geenen graduated in 1992 from the Higher Institute for Visual Communication & Industrial Design (Genk, BE) with a MFA in Photography. She holds also a MA in Visual Arts from the Media and Design Academie and a certificate of pedagogical competence from the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training. Since 2004, Annick Geenen teaches at the academic Bachelor and Master’s degree programs in Visual Arts Photography at LUCA School of Arts (BE), while continuing her artistic practice.
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