Iris Van Dongen
Born in 1975 in Tilburg, Netherlands. Lives and works in Berlin.
Iris Van Dongen organizes the collusion of history and geography, plunging her models of today into timeless universes, projecting them into dark or light-saturated spaces that create a poisonous gap, where the eyes, concentrated and serene, seem quite capable of struggling with this otherness. Each of her women then becomes a divinity abstracted from contingencies, ours first of all, since certain elements testify that they are of our time, but also of this dark world they inhabit or haunt, impassive heroines of a silent mythology that continues from one canvas to the next.
