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Coen Dekkers [*1958 The Netherlands] ➝➝

I see the true challenge in accepting uncertainty, approaching the unknown not as a void but as a liminal space in flux: an active field of becoming where transformation and meaning can arise. My work explores the elusiveness of things, a deeper reality that lies just beyond our grasp.

Working in sequences gives my images a cinematic quality that resists the illusion of a single truth. A sequence stretches time, asking the viewer to linger in the “in-between.” These quiet intervals, like silences in music, are invitations to an entrypoint that reveal the instability, desire, and longing that shape both subject and perception.

My portraits and staged images cultivate this tension deliberately. Though rooted in a documentary tradition, they inhabit the threshold between reality and construction, clarity and obscurity. Subjects often carry an androgynous presence, becoming personifications of liminal space itself. In both landscape and portraiture, desire is my method of looking, where images do not conclude, but gesture. Towards ambiguity, towards possibility, towards the unknown

Exhibitions:
1997: TNO Apeldoorn solo exhibition;

2003: Exhibition O’dart Delft, solo exhibition;

2009: ‘The man habitat’ group exhibition Kadmium Delft;

2010/11: Solo exhibition ‘Sequential Portraits’ Kadmium Delft;

2012: Group Exhibition ‘Ataque’ Kadmium Delft;

2022: Solo exhibition Kadmium Delft: ‘The moment in-between’

2012/19: Curatorship Kadmium Delft, from artistical perspective
and the implementation /realization of exhibitions;

2017/24: Member of the Art Committee The Hague University op Applied Sciences;

I’m a self-taught photographer and have a background in Industrial Design-Engineering. I live and works in The Hague, The Netherlands.