Levi van Veluw is a young visual artist born in Hoevelaken, the Netherlands.
He studied between 2003 and 2007 in the Artez School of Arts, Autonomous
Arts, Arnhem. He has shown works in London, Stockholm, Chicago and Berlin,
among other cities.
Levi van Veluw's photo series are all self-portraits, drawn and photographed
by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers -
modifying the face as object - combining it with other stylistic elements to
create a third visual object with a large visual impact. The work you see
therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form,
texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative
process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and
object.
In the case of the series The Material Transfer, all works were completed
and photographed within a time frame of 24 hours and without any digital
manipulation. Giving familiar elements such as cheap carpet, pebble stones
and sterling wood a new context results in a confusing conflict between the
objects normal associations and the new values assigned to it in the works.
Levi van Veluw interrogates the attributes of daily life. Although it seems
as if the actual material is the object of his observation, it is in fact
their metaphoric use in daily life what interests him most: the
signification people attach to the things that surround them.
