about
Joost Gerritsen graduated from the AKI (Fine Art Academy) in Enschede. After graduating, he moved to Amsterdam and participated in group exhibitions in the Netherlands.
In 2016, he moved to the Spanish countryside near Valencia and began exhibiting in London and Valencia. In 2018 he won the "kunst in het Volkspark Enschede" award.
Joost Gerritsen is an active member of three art collectives:
The London Ground Collective, Instagram: @ground__collective
the PenJa'm collective in Valencia, Instagram: @collectiupenjam
and the Drawing Club Amsterdam.
I see my photographic work as a medium. A lot is lost in the translation of creating the work, opening it up for the poetry to enter.
The objects I use are taken out of their natural habitat and combined with other objects, building new universes upon old ones. Isolation brings a nakedness that offers an opportunity for the soul to shine.
Photographing this translates a three-dimensional world into a flat image. These translations add meaning to what was taken for granted, and to that which was forgotten and never looked at twice.
You lose some and you gain some within this chain of translations—changing the world of objects into a world of stories, changing the domain.
Objects obtain a voice and start to speak, and with speech, they come to life: visualizing an animistic world.