Présentation de l'artiste

Annemarie Deckers

Annemarie Deckers is a Belgian artist based in Athens. Her photographic practice explores experiences of alienation, in-between states, and the fluidity of identity, often touching on the uncanny, abjection, and moments of disintegration or loss of self. Combining staged and found images, she constructs cyclical, non-linear narratives shaped by recurring motives, patterns, and fragments of lived experience. Her recent work unfolds primarily in the domestic space, approached as a microcosmos where intimate tensions meet broader human concerns, and as a psychological landscape that echoes an underlying state of mind. Her approach brings together conceptual thinking, theoretical research, and personal experience, drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytic texts to deepen the questions her images raise.

Artist statement

In my work I explore themes such as alienation, in-between states, disintegration of self and the fluid nature of identity. I draw on both theoretical sources such as literature and philosophical texts, but also on lived experience, i.e. feelings that I have had since very young and that have recently been exacerbated by moving abroad. My work is therefore conceptual in its approach and consists of a combination of staged and found photography.

At the moment I mostly work in the domestic space, as a microcosmos which encapsulates a lot of ambivalences and tensions (such as safe/unsafe; home/not home) and is a place where a lot of societal struggles are played out. In this way it becomes a stage to address issues that concern me personally, but are deeply human. I want to explore the darker side of what it means to be human, as an artistic inquiry into the void. My work is cyclical in nature; The narrative is broken, non-linear, based on a repetition of motives, patterns, experiences.