Elspeth Diederix (KENYAN, B. 1971) ,2006.0
Notes : de AppelArtist's Resale Right (droit de Suite). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €20,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €20,001 and €800.000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €800.000. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.Elspeth Diederix started at the art academy by studying painting and sculpture but soon tried her hand at photography, which became her preferred medium. Diederix is playful and inventive in her visualisation of images but strict and almost mathematical in constructing her compositions. They seem to have been brought about by chance, but are in fact staged to an extreme degree. A plastic bag may become a flower, a plastic bottle part of a classical still life. Diederix' enigmatic photographs create a sense of alienation which she achieves by stripping everyday objects of what one normally takes for granted. Special effects are achieved by manual intervention, making everyday objects lose their sense of familiarity, acquire another meaning and seem to become almost abstract. She has won the Prix de Rome (Photography) (2002). Selected collections: Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Akzo Nobel Collection, ABN/AMRO collection, MEP (Paris), Mario Testino, Rabobank collection, La Salle bank (Chicago). Selected exhibitions: Doride/Ultramarine, Foam, Amsterdam (with Maura Biava) (2007), Dutch dare, Australian Cente for Photography, Sydney (2006), HxBxD, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2005), Link, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2003) and A'dam and Eve: on sex, tolerance and other dependencies, de Appel (2001).
