Anouk Kruithof is a Dutch artist born in Dordrecht in 1981. She lives and works between Belgium (Brussels), the Netherlands and her wooden house in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in Botopasi (Suriname). Anouk Kruithof's practice lies at the crossroads of photography, sculpture, installation, photomontage, artist's book, text, performance, video and interventions in the public space. Her work has been exhibited in institutions around the world, including the MoMA (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen) or the Tinguely Museum (Basel). Anouk Kruithof works based on the photographs of amateur photographers posted on social media, groups of Snapchat photos or by drawing from free stock photos. Continuously navigating between digital and physical experiences, she contemplates and comments on this incessant flow of edited, fabricated and assembled photographs, which lose their credibility: a contemporary reality meticulously scripted and subject to permanent post-production.
