In her photographs and montages, on or in combination with textile, she uses images that show several angles of a specific theme. All this is dosed with a considerable amount of humour. She tries to give a literary meaning and contemplative atmosphere to her work.
At the moment, she works together with Anita Frank on a series of photographs about Jewish life in Amsterdam. The exhibition will be on show in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. Prior likes to join forces with other artists and to combine her work with that of others. Besides being an artist she works for various magazines as a photographer and journalist.
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The Dutch Perspective Peepshow
Pauline Prior en Thea van den Heuvel
Fascinated by space, perspective, lighting and small versus big, we developed the photographic concept ‘DDP’: ’The Dutch Perspective Peepshow’. One of the first DDP’s was about the city of Nijmegen, after that we made a DPP about The Netherlands with 600 images.
Main theme is the unification of Europe with all its controversies between the different members, this will be made visible in one large image. To put it differently: it is a photo project in which the political process is made tangible for the individual, this process is elusive and can have a positive or negative outcome.
In surveys it becomes clear, that most inhabitants of common market countries know very little about the European Union and that they are more aware of its disadvantages than of any advantages. In general, the ultimate goal is a safe prosperous and stable Europe, to be obtained by co-operation between its members. Is this an amiable goal, a neutral gain or just an empty phrase? How will the essence of politics change, when national politics will cease to have power? Who will be in power then, economics perhaps? Is a mix of multinationals going to reign Europe? Tendency aims towards national economies and will this become a success without too much folklore?
Apart from political content, this is a photographic investigation into the new Europe to be. With pleasure, we sort and file images of all 12 Euro-countries. The square is our basic because the square is synonymous for market and the market will be the Euro. We will make a new kind of city we all kinds of market related to the European Society. But our project is in progress: On own initiative we photographed Luxembourg, France and Berlin. We were invited to travel to Finland (European chair in 1999). During an ‘artist in residence’ stay at an International Photography Triennial in Tampere (Finland), we were offered the possibility to work on the Finnish part of our project. For the Italian part we were very pleased to be the only Dutch participant when Bologna was the cultural capital in 2000.
In 2001 the Nederlands Foto Instituut in Rotterdam will show our total vision on the European Union.
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