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‘This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost: It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is everywhere.’
– Surrealist Manifesto
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‘In this dizzying race the images appear like the only guideposts of the mind. By slow degrees the mind becomes convinced of the supreme reality of these images … The mind becomes aware of the limitless expanses wherein its desires are made manifest.’
– Surrealist Manifesto
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Viviane Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam, and lives there.
A retrospective of 17 years of Sassen's fashion work, In and Out of Fashion, opened at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, in 2012, and travelled to the Rencontres d'Arles festival, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Fotomuseum Winterthur. In 2020 she returned to the museum with Venus & Mercury, a solo exhibition occupying all 14 of Huis Marseille’s galleries as well as its garden. Hot Mirror, a survey exhibition of her photography, has shown at the Hepworth Wakefield (2018) and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle (2019).
Previous solo exhibitions by Sassen have taken place at institutions including Fotografiska, Stockholm (2017); the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2016); The Photographers’ Gallery, London and ICA, London (2015).
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Photography: Jonathan de Waart; Joost Bosland
Studios: Viviane Sassen | Amsterdam
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