Shreya de Souza is photographer in residence at the HvA this year.
Photographer Shreya de Souza is photographer in residence of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) in the academic year 2020-2021. During this time she will take an art photo on special occasions. The artist will also have the opportunity to exhibit her work at an HvA location. De Souza graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in July 2020.
Every year a jury, this year chaired by acting AUAS chair Hanneke Reuling, selects an appealing photographer from the graduation exhibition Photography of the Rietveld Academy. The chair choose Shreya de Souza this year. The jury was impressed by Souza's colorful and playful, but at the same time vulnerable and honest work. In her photography she reflects on the relationship between photographer and subject. She portrays an encounter between herself as a photographer and those she photographs from the LGBTI community. Her use of different media and her artistic awareness make her work surprising. Shreya de Souza has a talent for making social issues visible in an accessible way. She does so with a refreshing lightness that underlines the power of art in turbulent times. Her work is disarming and powerful at the same time and has a strong sense of aesthetics.
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Documentation project nby Shreya de Souza on de Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show 2020. Video door Kleoniki Stanich & Elia Kalogianni voor Public Rietveld, © Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Since 2015, the AUAS has been working with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy on the photographer in residence. In this way the AUAS can offer a unique gift to a jubilating or departing board member, and its own art collection is supplemented with original work by a young artist trained in Amsterdam. The artist is given the opportunity to reach a new audience.
This article was published on 3 September 2020 at hva.nl.
