Risk Hazekamp

Practice for the opening ceremony in the Olympic Village, Mexico City

Exhibition overview

Exhibition overview

Harmony Hammond wrote about "The Giant Series": "In Giant (2), a movie poster-size color photograph, Hazekamp copies her 2001 version of the same image. In a kind of drag on drag, she performs herself performing actor James Dean as depicted in the movie's poster. The focus is on the awkward figure held in suspension. An ongoing project, Hazekamp hopes to make another version every eight years or so, thereby claiming and transforming the image through repetition."

Eindpresentatie van Probeer Andere Zoektermen op 8 verschillende locaties in Nijmegen.

Onderdeel van Probeer Andere Zoektermen op 8 verschillende locaties in Nijmegen.

Onderdeel van Probeer Andere Zoektermen op 8 verschillende locaties in Nijmegen.

"nullachtfünfzehn" is a project by Risk Hazekamp and Tania Witte, based around the question how identity is defined. The project is an ongoing research about the (im)possibility of rural queer lives.

Series of 20 analogue photographs. Risk Hazekamp followed the 1959 route of the (white) American writer J. H. Griffin, who in his in 1960 published book "Black Like Me" reports of his travels as a black man (with help of medicine, UV light and make-up) through the Deep South. Hazekamp projected this subversive idea on the Gender theme and traveled not as a woman, but as a man.

Series of 20 analogue photographs.

Series of 20 analogue photographs. Risk Hazekamp followed the 1959 route of the (white) American writer J. H. Griffin, who in his in 1960 published book "Black Like Me" reports of his travels as a black man (with help of medicine, UV light and make-up) through the Deep South. Hazekamp projected this subversive idea on the Gender theme and traveled not as a woman, but as a man.

Series of 20 analogue photographs. Risk Hazekamp followed the 1959 route of the (white) American writer J. H. Griffin, who in his in 1960 published book "Black Like Me" reports of his travels as a black man (with help of medicine, UV light and make-up) through the Deep South. Hazekamp projected this subversive idea on the Gender theme and traveled not as a woman, but as a man.

"The Great Depression" is based on Walker Evans' photos of white cotton tenants made in Alabama in 1936. It is about the similarities between the 30-ies and now: financial crises, economic recession, but also similarities in nature: extreme long dry periods in time.