Inspired by Balthasar van der Ast and the Bosschaert family, Bas Meeuws bases his art on reality before bending it to his will. For the exhibition ‘Flowers in Blue’, the Royal Delft Museum commissioned Meeuws to create a new series of artworks using Delft blue vases from the museum collection in a context where the vases belong, adorned with gushing baroque bouquets. It results in a delicately balanced artwork, blending classical paintings and contemporary photography to perfection.

While still creating her artworks in-camera without any post-production modification, JeeYoung Lee takes a radically opposite approach to her previous aesthetic codes. She strips her studio down to immerse herself in an evanescent and vibrating universe close to abstraction. A master of colors in her own right, Lee instinctively expressed her subconsciousness through a single pastel hue and its infinite palette of nuances. Barely perceptible, the outline of her body paradoxically channels her soul to give substance to a visible, almost tangible emotion.

Inspired by a foggy day spent snowboarding, “Into the Mist” is a (re)collection of the sensations depicted through a series of introspective tableaux. Spiritual, almost mystical, each photograph reactivates a kinesthetic memory which the artist wishes to share with her audience. The physical addresses the immaterial and sublime, while the detail of a movement, a vague reminder of a silhouette, dwells into the viewer’s own sensory hermitage. Like a XXIst century Rothko painting, “Into the Mist” opens up a mental space to let the viewer experience a trip through the infinite perception of the colors of the artist’s soul.

"But its' always time for ice cream, Jason."
Judisch's ice cream highlights the frivolity in which we approach global warming issues. The ice cream, slowly spreading on the sidewalk symbolizes the melting of ice, in response to which we will just walk over it and buy another one.