Wendelian Daan; All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Go
From "All Dressed Up Nowhere to Go" series, 2005
People who see Wendelien Daan’s technically perfect, clean-cut images would not for a minute think she was autodidact.
Daan moulds her pictures with the utmost precision and attention to detail, creating beautifully pure sculptural images in which her eye plays over the exterior planes that enclose the human form. Although figurative, her photos in their surface division, refer to the graphic clarity of Mondriaan while the intensities of light and dark that glide over the body are reminiscent of Vermeer. "I would like to capture a worldly image in a photo in the same way the naked eye registers beauty", according to Daan. Therefore no fuzzy outlines, background and foreground are equally sharply focussed. Daan’s play on light and dark, her command of open and closed body language arrest the eye and emphasize female strength.
