DuoChromes
Polaroids as both fist and whisper. Her DuoChromes are created on experimental analog Polaroid film with a two-color chemistry: no digital manipulation, but the poetic outcome of a duochrome soul. She cuts and reassembles her images into collages; portraits reconstructed into stylized yet charged compositions. Each work balances between immediacy and estrangement. The images are enlarged and presented as objects, with or without their typographic labels: short, sharp sentences in old-fashioned Dymo tape.
What initially appears colorful and pop reveals itself, upon closer look, as a mirror to our discomfort with body, gaze, and judgment. De Vos does not exhibit bodies; she exposes a norm in image form, seasoned with wit.
