Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare What is objective and what

What is objective and what is subjective

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support

dramaturgy

using handmade sets

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare What is objective and whatPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective