NOE SENDAS
Noé Sendas was born in 1972 in Brussels. He presented his works for the first time in the late 1990s, and his artwork became a unique phenomenon of the time. Sendas studied photography, cinematography, and a wide range of art disciplines in many schools around the globe, including the Art Institute of Chicago, London’s Royal College of Art, the Atelier Livre in Lisbon, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and art schools in Madrid, Paris, and Venice. This extensive training resulted in a large number of exhibitions, cooperation with famous galleries, and successful sales at photography fairs. Besides photography, Sendas takes a keen interest in other arts, including videography and collages. Being a versatile talent, he creates sculptures and graphic works as well. Sendas holds many awards. He won the City Desk contest in Lisbon (2003), and he received grants from the Camões Institute in Brussels (2011; 2014), dgARTES in Berlin, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2009), and Mairie de Paris in Paris. His works are on display in private and state museum collections, including the Haarlemmermeer Arts Council in Amsterdam, the Contemporary Arts Centre for photographic collections in Brussels, the MEIAC Museum of Modern Art in Spanish Badajoz, the Arts Museum in Rio de Janeiro, and the DGArtes Arts Institute in Portugal.
WALLPAPER GIRL (VERSACE). 2015
WALLPAPER GIRL (VERSACE). 2015 45X60 CM B&W INKJET PRINT (PIGMENTED INKS) ON LUSTER PAPER EDITION AP2 PRINTED 2018 SIGNED VERSO BY THE AUTHOR
Photographs by Sendas are like surrealist sketches permeated with mystification. They show illusive silhouettes with invisible heads and limbs which appear to dissolve in the interior space. Sendas often makes use of archive photographs and footage from Hollywood’s Golden Age movies. His works resemble the aesthetics of film directors Maya Deren and David Lynch. He treats his photographs like sculptures, playing with the concepts of gravity, weight, and balance. As he puts it, the trick is ‘not to be afraid of making something beautifully strange and unexpected out of hard work, chance, trickery, desire, and intuition. ©Noe Sendas
WALLPAPER GIRL (SONIA RYKIEL). 2015,
45X60 CM B&W INKJET PRINT (PIGMENTED INKS) ON LUSTER PAPER EDITION AP2 PRINTED 2018 SIGNED VERSO BY THE AUTHOR
Photographs by Sendas are like surrealist sketches permeated with mystification. They show illusive silhouettes with invisible heads and limbs which appear to dissolve in the interior space. Sendas often makes use of archive photographs and footage from Hollywood’s Golden Age movies. His works resemble the aesthetics of film directors Maya Deren and David Lynch. He treats his photographs like sculptures, playing with the concepts of gravity, weight, and balance. As he puts it, the trick is ‘not to be afraid of making something beautifully strange and unexpected out of hard work, chance, trickery, desire, and intuition.’ ©Noe Sendas
WALLPAPER GIRL (FENDI), 2015
45X60 CM B&W INKJET PRINT (PIGMENTED INKS) ON LUSTER PAPER EDITION AP2 PRINTED 2018 SIGNED VERSO BY THE AUTHOR
Photographs by Sendas are like surrealist sketches permeated with mystification. They show illusive silhouettes with invisible heads and limbs which appear to dissolve in the interior space. Sendas often makes use of archive photographs and footage from Hollywood’s Golden Age movies. His works resemble the aesthetics of film directors Maya Deren and David Lynch. He treats his photographs like sculptures, playing with the concepts of gravity, weight, and balance. As he puts it, the trick is ‘not to be afraid of making something beautifully strange and unexpected out of hard work, chance, trickery, desire, and intuition.’ ©Noe Sendas