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The photography of Suzanne Jongmans investigates the relationship between present and past, and the transience and vulnerability of time. Since 2007, the Dutch photographer has been working on her series Foam Sculptures, inspired by 16th and 17th century paintings. "I use the elements in the present as in the past. The objects in my work are used as symbols of values. I mutate old costumes into new plastics and old masters in new photographic works. By using time foreign materials such as plastics I am creating a time crux: a tension of time." The resulting images convey an elegance and timelessness whilst referencing consumerism and its rapacious production of waste. While the photographs themselves, with their technical refinement and painterly lighting, bring to mind the portraits of Holbein, Piero Della Francesca, Van Eyck, Clouet, Vermeer and Hollands Golden Age. Since her academic training, Suzanne has retained a theatrical element in the work and her multi-media processes and productions now define her as a seamstress, pattern cutter, creator of sculptural forms, designer of costumes and a photographer who compresses images from their third dimension to the flat print.