Jakob Zaaiman

Born 1955 near Etersheim, North Holland. Educated in England and United States. Lives in London & New York. Has also lived in Eastern Europe. University of London graduate.

My art is about discovering - and then revealing - the strange and disturbing hidden in the everyday and in the ordinary. From this point of view, everything else in art is either merely decorative or inconsequential. The strange and disturbing is where art has its true power to fascinate and enthrall.

I work mainly with photographs, some of my own, and some found. These I work into digital collages. Each artwork is designed to house its own difficult but unsettling narrative; sometimes self-contained, sometimes reaching out to realms beyond itself. I like to ‘mine’ a subject over time, returning to it now and then to see if I can find some other disconcerting angle to explore.

I have also written extensively on modern art: https://ulondon.academia.edu/JakobZaaiman

contemporary art; modern art; art theory; philosophy of art; modern & contemporary art