“I am interested in questioning conventional habits and claims of photographic image making.”

 

I quote from Tom Zummer, writer, curator in New York:

“Carolien Stikker's disposition is cool and ironic. At the same time it is an open minded and generous position,
a willingness to explore the limits of a medium, a technology, or an idea.

She is unafraid to tamper with the canonical gestures and precepts of her medium- as in the case of her series of precisely un-focused (one should say re-focused) photographs of pages of advertisements from art magazines, where the resulting images bear initial comparison to the painting of Newman, Rothko, even Turner, though they also operate at the level of the photo-chemical index to produce something more akin to a 'technological sublime.”