Jeroen Zwaap
Photography BA
Royal Academy Of Art The Hague KABK
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Photography / Digital Arts
My location: Den Haag, Netherlands
Jeroen Zwaap
First Name: Jeroen
Last Name: Zwaap
University / College: Royal Academy Of Art The Hague KABK
Course / Program: Photography BA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Photography / Digital Arts
My Location: Den Haag, Netherlands
Website: Click To See Website
About
Jeroen Zwaap (Rotterdam (NL), 1980) is a Dutch-Turkish queer visual artist and explorer, technovoyeur, and UFO-enthusiast. Zwaap uses voyeurism as a practice to form his own perception of the world and to explore, resist and challenge existing ones. He always works on the verge of photography and media-ecologies of looking, where the internet has become his camera. He graduated in 2023 from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.
I took on an alter-ego called Spider; an isolated persona with an existential desire to look without being seen. Spider uses openly accessible webcams to explore hidden narratives that unfold in ordinary and mundane evolving in a non-narrative film, a publication and a research paper. The works show footage from my archives of hidden cctv-cameras. The works are poetic yet alienating, exploring the role of the internet gaze in our public and private spaces. The home, the office, the store-each becomes more than a mere location, more than just a setting for human activity. They become theatres of the infra-ordinary.
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