Title: CAVE2CAVE
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2011–2019
Dimensions: 130 × 100 cm (51.18 × 39.37 in)
Materials: UV print on mirror foil, aluminum frame
About:
This work features photographs of wrinkled reflections of cave paintings, UV-printed onto mirror foil stretched over a frame. The reflective surface creates a dynamic interaction between image and environment, emphasizing the interplay of history and contemporary technology.
Title: Interface – Downstairs
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
Interface explores the relationship between observation and thought, and considers how the exchange between the two might be visualized. Developed in relation to early discussions around artificial intelligence, the work reflects on attempts to model and clarify the often complex processes through which reality is perceived and understood.
The project also engages with the history of photography and its claim to document reality. By using photography to suggest perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the work challenges ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, proposing instead an experience of the world that is subjective, composite, and constructed.
Title: Interface – Musashi
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
Interface explores the relationship between observation and thought, and considers how the exchange between the two might be visualized. Developed in relation to early discussions around artificial intelligence, the work reflects on attempts to model and clarify the often complex processes through which reality is perceived and understood.The project also engages with the history of photography and its claim to document reality. By using photography to suggest perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the work challenges ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, proposing instead an experience of the world that is subjective, composite, and constructed.
Title: Interface – Il Casolare
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
Interface explores the relationship between observation and thought, and considers how the exchange between the two might be visualized. Developed in relation to early discussions around artificial intelligence, the work reflects on attempts to model and clarify the often complex processes through which reality is perceived and understood. The project also engages with the history of photography and its claim to document reality. By using photography to suggest perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the work challenges ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, proposing instead an experience of the world that is subjective, composite, and constructed.
Title: Interface – Easy Jet
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 × 124 cm
Materials: Two digital prints on Photo Forex sheets with CNC cut-outs; painted wooden frame
About:
The Interface project is shaped by an interest in thought, observation, and how the constant exchange between the two might be visualized. This inquiry emerged alongside broader technological concerns of the time, particularly in the early days of A.I., when the tech world was increasingly trying to model and make legible the complex cognitive processes through which we perceive and understand reality.
The work also engages with the history of photography and its longstanding investment in documenting “reality.” By using photography to visualize perception as fragmented, layered, and non-linear, the project questions ideas of photographic clarity and objectivity, suggesting instead that our experience of the world may be closer to painting: subjective, composite, and constructed.
Title: Whole World Overview
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2011
Dimensions: 220 cm (diameter)
Materials and techniques: UV print on Dibond and 4 mm Plexiglass
About:
This artwork was created by Anne de Vries in collaboration with NASA, using Whole World satellite photography.
The imagery is stretched into a circular format (from the North Pole to the South Pole), evoking ancient sun crosses and sun wheels.
Documentation: Future Gallery Berlin
Title: Timetables
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2011
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Wood; metal; ceramic; digital photo prints on tables
About:
This piece features photographs taken from the clouds above Amsterdam in 2007.
Documentation:
Exhibition views from TruEye surView curated by Katja Novitskova, W139 in Amsterdam
Title: Katanga Bub
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2011
Dimensions: 90 × 144 cm
Materials: Mobile devices mounted on a lightbox displaying a press image of the Katanga mines in the Congo, rephotographed underwater
About:
Katanga Bub brings together the extremes of the mobile device industry. It is based on a press image depicting the landscape and workers of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo—an area mined for minerals such as tungsten and coltan, essential for mobile device production. The press image has been rephotographed underwater and presented within a freestanding display unit. As water ripples and bubbles distort the scene beneath, the screens of multiple mobile devices display clearer details of the same Katanga mine view. This fusion of the earthy origins of mining and the liquefied luxury of global technology commodities explores the relationship between material extraction and digital information. The work highlights the dual narrative: while mobile devices disseminate knowledge and raise global awareness with the promise of a better world, the rare earth economy also supports problematic social and political infrastructures in Congo. It reveals the recursive links between matter and information, tracing the path from raw material to data generation.
Documentation:
Exhibition views from Trails Rising, Sandy Brown Gallery, Berlin; The Composing Rooms, London; and Treijac Project, France
Title: Infinite Value
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2009
Dimensions: 5 × 74 × 53 cm
Materials: Three digital prints layered within a custom wooden frame
About:
This work features three digital prints overlaid inside a custom wooden frame. By milling out sections of the first print, another version of the same image is revealed, creating a layered visual effect.
Title: The Chosen Few
Artist: Anne de Vries & Harm van der Dorpel
Year: 2009
Materials: HD video
Length: 4-minute 26-second loop
Sound: Stereo
About:
The Chosen Few is a computer-generated video in which the camera pans through a large batch of photographs capturing the shape-shifting crowds at Hardcore parties organized by ID&T in the Netherlands.
