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dépendance VIEW is pleased to present Spellbound, a solo exhibition by Iris van Dongen.
Iris van Dongen’s work moves between historical painting traditions and contemporary subcultures. Her portraits of women show distant, absent gazes reminiscent of 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite painting, but are reframed through references to fashion photography, death metal aesthetics, and contemporary styling. Clothing and ornament function as a visual language through which gender roles and identity are tested and unsettled through choices of fabric, pose, and styling rather than abstract symbolism, often producing an uneasy stillness rather than open-ended disquiet. Spellbound theatrically incorporates a skull that echoes one of James Ensor’s recurring motifs, where masks and vanitas symbolism blur the boundaries between satire, mortality, and disguise.
Her works use layered applications of pastel, oil, and charcoal to construct figures through visible revisions, smudges, and overlays, where bright…
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dépendance VIEW is pleased to present Spellbound, a solo exhibition by Iris van Dongen.
Iris van Dongen’s work moves between historical painting traditions and contemporary subcultures. Her portraits of women show distant, absent gazes reminiscent of 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite painting, but are reframed through references to fashion photography, death metal aesthetics, and contemporary styling. Clothing and ornament function as a visual language through which gender roles and identity are tested and unsettled through choices of fabric, pose, and styling rather than abstract symbolism, often producing an uneasy stillness rather than open-ended disquiet. Spellbound theatrically incorporates a skull that echoes one of James Ensor’s recurring motifs, where masks and vanitas symbolism blur the boundaries between satire, mortality, and disguise.
Her works use layered applications of pastel, oil, and charcoal to construct figures through visible revisions, smudges, and overlays, where bright…
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