About the Artist
My work consists of oil paintings and (oil pastel) drawings. In these pieces, I depict my fascination with the fleshly aspect of the body. The curves, folds and colors; the red of the cheeks or blue of the eye bags. The search for all these details is an attempt to make myself feel comfortable in the body; everyone has a body, but not everyone feels at home in it. By depicting my body and those of my loved ones, I have found a way to give it care and attention. I stroke the colors of the skin on the canvas with my brush. It allows me to distance myself from judgements about the body; it becomes mere paint on canvas, just as the body is mere flesh on bones.
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Jaime Korbee - Bloedmaan
In March 2020, a mere few weeks after Jaime’s father had taken his last breath, the world went into lockdown. Personal grief was brutally repressed by mass insecurity, fear, confusion and suspicion among a population that was forced to live within four walls.
Jaime tried to capture this schizophrenic world during his walks, the only permitted outdoor activity at the time. Even though nothing seemed to have changed in appearance, the invisible threat and his personal loss put everything in a totally different perspective
About the Artist
Driven by personal experiences, emotions and reflections, Jaime Korbee aims to create mysterious, cinematic scenes from our daily reality. He focuses on themes such as grief, perception of reality and locus of control. In previous and current works, his starting point is his father’s death, through which he explores how we experience our surroundings, our memories of the past and life as a whole when we are dealing with loss. He visualizes this through grainy, vividly colored images, turning his photographs into painting-like landscapes.
Jaime Korbee (1986) is a photographer currently based in Leiden (NL). He studied photography at the Sint-Lucas Academie in Ghent, where he graduated in 2021. Jaime’s
works have been exhibited in Ghent, Bruges and Amsterdam and have been published in GUP New ’22 and Opus One ’21. He was also nominated for the SO Awards ’22 by DUPHO (Selection of photography, Dutch Photographers).