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Risk Hazekamp

Characters in the foreground in front of distant landscapes. Figures out of scale watching the infinite. Faces with serious expressions contemplating uncertainty. Glances getting lost on the way....

Risk Hazekamp creates a fiction, cinema, and Literature world. The American West, the Marlboro man. The omnipresent advertising planet in the collective conscience. Atmospheres suggesting well-known land. Men, characters who go all out. Bullfighters giving their life in the arena if it is necessary. Reputation and masculine pride like witnesses of the past.

But nothing convinces, everything is disquieting and ambiguous, and each figure is an androgynous being. There are only desires and wished recreations of dreams and realities that never happened. Romantic visions with mysterious anxieties.

In her work, Risk Hazekamp tries to transmit human being's value and identity. She appeals to an absent humanism of sexisms and its cliché. She herself is represented in front of a natural scenario that seems being made in a film studio. Her face and body appear her but without being a self-portrait.

Sex loses its importance and the human values attain its relevance. No longer concern is paid to feminism nor male chauvinism in this society created by her. A society that knows how to respect and accept the other.

Longing scopes towards a changing and uncertain future. Views taken with a camera that knows to deceive perception and to allude mistake. Contemplative provocation.


"Giant" - 2001. 154 x 104 cm.
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"Idanha-a-nova II" - 2001. 50 x 63 cm.
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"Jack off Jimmy" - 2001. 130 x 130 cm.
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"No man´s land" - 1999. 70 x 100 cm.
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