Rachel de Joode (born 1979) is a Berlin-based sculptor, photographer, and installation artist.
Early life and education
Rachel de Joode studied art at the
Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in Breda and time-based arts at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The academy was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design.
History
In 1924, the I ...
in Amsterdam.
Work
After graduating, de Joode began working with photographs and short films that eventually evolved into sculptures that blurred the line between digital representation and an object. De Joode's work can be seen as a version of ephemeral reality, a surface or texture that can be seen as tactile but not felt because what appear to be sculptural materials are photographs. When she chooses to combine these photographs with actual materials, the illusion is magnified and a new form of naturalness is created as product of the artificial and the physical.
Images of de Joode's collaboration with Donna Huanca began circulating on internet in 2010. ''Conjunction'' was an interpretation of an astrological event that involved two performers moving through an installation as if practicing some forgotten ritual. De Joode's interest in the relationship between photography, physical reality and illusion appear in the documentation of the installation/performance. De Joode said that the internet influenced her in the way she perceives and processes visual images. For her, the photograph becomes a tool for the mediation of physical experience with matter. In effect, the networked documentation of an image becomes the artwork.
In her 2016 exhibition at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, de Joode explored the relationship between, photography, internet and her sculptural objects. A self-taught sculptor, de Joode had started working in three dimensions by making still lifes, photographing and arranging objects and thinking about the semiotics of objects. At a certain point de Joode stopped photographing her "things"
(a manner she chooses to identify her work to avoid categorization) and started thinking of the art gallery as a stage that was meant to be photographed, documented and distributed through internet.
In the exhibition ''Instead of Pieces, a Play'', (Galerie
Christophe Gaillard, Paris, 2018), de Joode, now as an artist protagonist sets up a stage in the middle of the gallery with actors dressed as artists presenting the exhibits. On the double walls hang small ceramic nude figurines representing the artist while anonymous arms pierce the walls to hold sculptural objects. The whole combines literal performance with virtual and real textures and photographic assemblages.
De Joode's Museum exhibitions include ''Myths of the Marble'' (2017) at
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum in Philadelphia. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to e ...
(ICA) and
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is an art museum located at Høvikodden in Bærum municipality in Viken county, Norway. It is situated on a headland jutting into the Oslofjord, approximately southwest of Oslo.
History
The artcentre was founded ...
, Oslo, ''Rachel de Joode, Flat Nature / Surface Bodies'' (2017)
Fort Vijfhuizen
Fort Vijfhuizen is one of forty-two forts in the Defense Line of Amsterdam (Dutch: ''stelling van Amsterdam''), a World Heritage Site. It is located in the town of Vijfhuizen on the ''ringvaart'' which surrounds the Haarlemmermeer polder. The mai ...
, Amsterdam, ''Gestures of Tomorrow'' (2016) at
Kunstverein Nürnberg
The Kunstverein Nürnberg (art association Nuremberg, official name "Kunstverein Nürnberg - Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft e.V.") is a venue for exhibitions of contemporary art. The association was founded in 1792 and is Germany's oldest arts assoc ...
and ''Metabolism'' (2015) at
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Bibliography
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* Canbaz, Melissa (2014) "Rachel de Joode" ''Artforum'
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* Cordray, Julianne (July 29, 2016) "Nature // The Semiotics of Surface: An Interview with Rachel de Joode" ''Berlinartlink'
Nature // The Semiotics of Surface: An Interview with Rachel de Jooderetrieved March 8, 2020)
* Cotton, Charlotte ed. (2015) ''Photography Is Magic'' New York: Aperture
* Dandini de Sylva, Alessandro "Rachel de Joode: Metabolism" ''Fotographia XIV
FOTOGRAFIA , Rachel de Joode: Metabolismretrieved March 10, 2020)
* Dessent, Blaire (October 27, 2015) "Rachel de Joode’s Fleshy Artworks Mesh Sculpture and Photography" ''Artsy'
Rachel de Joode’s Fleshy Artworks Mesh Sculpture and Photographyretrieved March 8, 2020)
* "Donna Huanca and Rachel De Joode, Conjunction" ''Highlike'
DONNA HUANCA AND RACHEL DE JOODEretrieved March 9, 2020)
* Drumm, Rerrin (April 2, 2012) "Rachel De Joode, The Magic-surreal, Inflatable Neo-Dada Work of a Still Life Sculptor" ''Coolhunting'
Rachel de Joode(retrieved March 9, 2020)
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'Instagram makes you feel part of the art world—but it's a lie': artist Rachel de Joode on art and the digitalretrieved March 25, 2021)
* Hoegsberg, Milena and Klein, Alex (2018) ''Myths of the Marble'' Berlin: Sternberg Press
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retrieved March 8, 2020)
* LVL3 (July 19, 2011) "Artist of the Week: Rachel de Joode" ''LVL3 Gallery'', Chicag
Artist of the Week: Rachel de Joode(retrieved March 9, 2020)
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Rachel de Joode – The Editorial Magazineretrieved March 9, 2020)
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Rachel de Joode "The Molten Inner Core" at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin •retrieved March 8, 2020)
* ofluxone (November 19, 2015) "Porosity by Rachel de Joode @ Galerie Christophe Gaillard" ''Fluxo'
Porosity by Rachel de Joode @ Galerie Christophe Gaillardretrieved March 8, 2020)
* ofluxone (October 23, 2017)"Flat Nature / Surface Bodies by Rachel de Joode at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen" ''Fluxo'
Flat Nature / Surface Bodies by Rachel de Joode at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizenretrieved March 10, 2020)
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INVITATION to LIVE SCULPTURAL SPECTACLE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? CONJUNCTION? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? by Donna Huanca and Rachel de Joode Thursday,15th of JULY 2010 , opens: 20:00 PERFORMANCE: 20:20 and 21:00 starring: Helga Wretman and Taretrieved March 9, 2020)
* "Rachel De Joode on her Transcendent Sculptures and Not Being an Artist" ''Material Magazine #32'' Spring/Summer 201
RACHEL DE JOODE ON HER TRANSCENDENT SCULPTURESretrieved March 9, 2020)
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Rachel de Joode, Artistretrieved March 9, 2020)
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Rachel De Jooderetrieved March 10, 2020)
References
External links
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1979 births
Living people
Dutch women artists
Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni
21st-century Dutch sculptors
21st-century Dutch photographers
AKV St. Joost alumni