Roy Villevoye, advisor and mentor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, presents Naro Snackey (NL 1980). Snackey was as a resident artist connected to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2004/2005.

‘The work of Naro Snackey could be described as sculptural collage with historical and personal visual elements. Painting and drawing form in a raw way the base for her collages’. Roy Villevoye Amsterdam 2006.

Naro Snackeys work is strongly autobiographic and develops instinctively. Snackey emphasizes the surface, the skin of her objects. An important visual element is the working process itself, is how the form and content is composed while working. In her former works family portraits and found photos that recollected memories were cut into pieces, reconstructed and were given a three dimensional shape. Fragmenting the images feels liberating for Naro Snackey. The clearly visible spontaneous way of working gives her work its strength.

Last summer Snackey has visited the last primeaval forests in Poland. The dynamic growth process in nature impressed her. In her work she aims at expressing a structural growth process that is parallel to that of nature. The spacial constructions like the reliëf are becoming a more evident part of her work because for her they express the connection to the process of growth in nature better than the two dimensional surface of a painting can. In outLINE Naro Snackey will show old and new works interlarded with autobiographic elements.

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