Daleen Bloemers

Daleen Bloemers (1990) is a Dutch artist based in Rotterdam. Graduated in 2018 from masters  of visual cultures at AKV | st. Joost in Den Bosch.

The collage-like canvases of Daleen Bloemers bring together all kinds of clues and signs. These include beginning brush strokes that suddenly come to a halt, a kind of ‘headfooter’ children’s drawing and wild pencil scratches, alongside photographs of skin folds, and a digitally deformed portrait. These images and signs are sometimes covered by semi-transparent layers, or a web of lines that makes you lose your way in this playful yet unfamiliar visual story. Bloemers’ main preoccupation is combining all these separate elements to create a free and simultaneously exciting composition.

 In her work, Bloemers brings together digital and analogue elements in a wide variety of materials and in unexpected constellations. All things have equal merit. While searching for the field of tension between childlike innocence and adult insights, the works prompt us to forge new connections.