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Appearances Characters on the foreground before far off landscapes. Outsize figures staring at the infinite. Faces with grave look watching the uncertain. Gazes lost on the way. Risk Hazekamp creates a fiction world, of movies and literature. The American West, the Marlboro man... The advertising planet omnipresent in the collective consciousness. Atmospheres suggesting well known lands. Men, protagonists making a real impression. Bull fighters risking their own life on the arena if they have to. The honour and the pride of man as witness of the past. But nothing convinces, everything is disturbing and ambiguous and every figure is an androgenic body. There are only wishes and recreations of dreams and disired realities that never happened. Romantic illusions with mysterious worries. In her work, Risk Hazekamp tries to transmit the value and the identity of the human being. She resorts to a humanism without sexism and its topics. That is why the figures of her photographs are ambiguous characters. It is herself before a natural scenery pretending to be built in a studio. Sex looses its importance and human values reach the first line. Feminism nor male chauvinism are no longer important in the society she has created. A society that respects and accepts the other. Yearning projections towards a changing and doubtful future. Sights taken with a camera that knows how mislead perception and allude to the ambiguity. Contemplative provocation. Camilla Hamm, December 2001 |