Annick Geenen is a fine art photographer, visual artist and lecturer at LUCA School of Arts (BE).
Her visual artistic practice and practice-led research interweaves photography, archival material, collage, text and installation. In between the visual arts, the staged and cinematic photography, she explores the significance of images and memories. She focuses on new ways of telling stories visually and experiment with narratives from a female perspective. Bridging the space between conceptual, conceptions of selfhood and cultural identity, she re-uses and activates her visual material to explore subjects such as human interaction, memory and a feeling that speaks in the feminine.
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. The artist, using both analog and digital cameras, creates images with a poetic and detached quality. 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 related 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. Essentially, the work investigates how images can evoke deeper reflections on the nature of memory and its value in our lives. 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.
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 Antwerp), Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels 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, Feeling, Goed Gevoel, 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), …
Annick Geenen graduated in 1992 from the Higher Institute for Visual Communication & Industrial Design (Genk, BE) with an MFA in Photography. She holds also an MA in Visual Arts from the Media and Design Academie and a certificate of pedagogical competence from the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training (BE).
Since 2004, Annick Geenen teaches at the academic Bachelor and Master’s degree programs in Visual Arts Photography at LUCA School of Arts campus C-Mine (BE), while continuing her artistic practice.
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