The Hague based visual artist Sanne Maes (1974) studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Maes is a member of Pulchri Studio and has exhibited, amongst other places, in The Hague Gemeentemuseum and Ron Mandos gallery.

Sanne Maes about her work: “My work consists mainly of video installations; video images projected on top of another image. It is usually a modest self-portrait that coincides with the image it is projected on. This image could be a drawing, a painting or an object.

Tranquil video images in which an isolated moment in time and movement play an important role. The videos are always very short, up to one minute, and by looping them I create the replay of a moment. In this way the portrait is trapped in a repetitive motion, locked in itself, locked in the moment, and also – by projecting it on a drawing or painting – trapped in the image.

The theme of transience and metamorphosis is present in all my work. My fascination lies with mankind. My work is an investigation of the place of man in relation to its surroundings, a search for identity. By projecting myself, I identify myself with the image I coincide with in the projection. For me it’s about both the similarities and the differences.”