Unfocused Days

Series of 7 self-portraits, C-print on aluminium, 40x60cm, 81x54cm or 113×75 cm

edition of  10 + 2 AP

The photo series Unfocused Days creates an image of the inner world of the person portrayed. Unfocused Days is inspired by the paintings of Matthijs Maris (1839–1917), who made vague, almost abstract portraits of mostly women.

Parool 28 maart 2019:”The first association is with the photos of the German photographer Michael Wolf. At Shimo-Kitazawa Station in Tokyo, he took photographs of squashed commuters behind stained glass. Almost anonymous. Just as you could characterize this ‘blurry’ photo with the word anonymous. It is an image by artist Roos van Geffen from the series Unfocused Days. With this she wants to show the inner world of the person portrayed. (…) Van Geffen hung the life-size photos at eye level, so that it is as if you are looking in the mirror. The blur makes identification with the person portrayed impossible and the viewer can ‘project his own feeling onto what he sees’. Van Geffen was also inspired by the ‘faintly grained’ canvases of painter Matthijs Maris (1839-1917).” Maarten Moll.

Exhibited:  2022 Palazzo Barolo Turin, 2020 Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam, 2019 VOX POP Amsterdam, 2018 Concertgemaal Amsterdam