Dieuwke Jollema Gorter
“The moment something passes, it is already gone. Dieuwke Jollema Gorter’s paintings arise from her interest in the elusiveness of time. She paints fragments from old family photographs, not to recreate the past but to revisit it and focus on small details. In this way, she draws attention to moments that might seem insignificant at first.
Her paintings have a soft quality, as if the absence of sharp lines lets the air around the image move gently, keeping the moment alive and unfolding. By working with family photographs, Jollema Gorter connects with her family’s past, a history that is both personal and distant, shared yet unreachable. In her most recent work, she captures moments that are both unique and universal. They depict images we all recognise, though they can never quite be the same twice: lights on the highway, the glow of evening, a place and time that may pass regularly but is never entirely identical. Through her work, Jollema Gorter invites us to become aware of the elusiveness of the ordinary and the beauty that lies within disappearance.”
Hagar Schuringa
Her paintings have a soft quality, as if the absence of sharp lines lets the air around the image move gently, keeping the moment alive and unfolding. By working with family photographs, Jollema Gorter connects with her family’s past, a history that is both personal and distant, shared yet unreachable. In her most recent work, she captures moments that are both unique and universal. They depict images we all recognise, though they can never quite be the same twice: lights on the highway, the glow of evening, a place and time that may pass regularly but is never entirely identical. Through her work, Jollema Gorter invites us to become aware of the elusiveness of the ordinary and the beauty that lies within disappearance.”
Hagar Schuringa