Carmen de Vos

'Tales of Bitter Doom' complete series, 25 pieces Edition of 7, 30x30cm each, complete 150x150cm plus spaces, 2018 digital C-Prints, based on a Polaroids mounted on Dibond - gloss ...

Letters from Madame - Touch, from the series mme.xposed, 2006, Archival C print based on the Polaroid, beautiful on Fine art Bright white by Hahnemuhle, mounted on Dibond - uncoated in shadow frame, Hand signed & numbered by the artist edition of 7 - nr 2 25x25cm Carmen De Vos - Artist statement Flying Freelance Portrayer. Purveyor of Exquisite Photographic Peculiarities. Chroniqueur and Archiver. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. The Belgian artist Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to loose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception she uses old Polaroid camera’s, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods - such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction - are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results - such as colorisation, deformation, unsharpness - which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty, because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic. All by themselves. Which merrily surprises her. Or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She never really got cured from naughtiness. She can’t help but traveling back to these blessed times of free-love photography...

Shadow of the Woman I used to be #07, 2019 [Self-portrait from my series Need to be] Photo based on a original Polaroid. Authentic museum quality Diasec® TruLife mounted on Dibond...

Bubble Gun #04 - 2015 [From the series Odd Stories] Edition of 7, 50x38.5cm Hand signed & numbered by the artist + certificate. Not mounted. Digital archi...

Paree #13, 2013, Edition printed 2018, Edition 1/7, 25x25cm plus 3cm white border. [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] Digital archival pigment print on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® UL...

Blomme #08, 2012 [From the series Vintage Diva's] 31x40cm Digital archival pigment print based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH paper 305gsm, 100% cott...

Kickers (Walk like you understand Fashion) - 2015 78x76cm, Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital archival pigment Print on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH paper 305gsm, 1...

Oui Mon Cul (The Eyes Of The Fox) - 2015 / 2018 40x30cm, edition of 7. High-end art print based on the original Polaroid. Mounted on aluminum 5mm. Finished with a high-gloss ep...