Exhibition 'Viviane Sassen – PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion' in Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam
PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion is the first large-scale retrospective of the Dutch fashion photographer and artist Viviane Sassen in the Netherlands. The exhibition comprises more than 200 works, reveals over thirty years of her multifaceted career bringing together photography, collage, painting and video. The exhibition serves a significant homecoming for Sassen, following her first museum showcase at Foam in 2008 titled Flamboya.
The exhibition features iconic series, including Flamboya (2008), Umbra (2014) and Parasomnia (2011), along with unseen archives, mixed-media works that blend photography, painting, collage and video. Sassen's fashion photography for brands such as Louis Vuitton and Dior will be presented in a monumental installation. Early experiments with objects from her personal archives, her initial self-portraits, and her final photo project from her studies are being showcased for the first time in the exhibition PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion.
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with The MEP in Paris and their curator Clothilde Morette and was shown during Kyotographie in Japan and at Fotografiska in Shanghai.
