How did you come to art? Getting into the world of art came to me as a natural progression from a very young age. I always loved to sketch, draw and sculpt. This later led me through the labyrinths of variety of artistic expressions before I started to settle down into what is characterizing my art today. Your work combines…

How did you find your voice as an artist? Ironically, it was when I was doing my first degree and I was struggling with ideas for a project. I decided to illustrate,in a very literal way, my empty head being devoid of ideas. This led to the first in a long series of etchings that all featured heads with holes…

You say that our relationship with nature changed – how did it change? One hundred years ago our relationship with nature was something different from three hundred years ago or from what is today. In fact nature it is not something defined, whereas it is a cultural concept and as such it changes with time. Nowadays we perceive nature often…

How would you describe your photographic and artistic singularity? I find this question quite difficult to answer. It’s not really for me to say. I can say that ultimately I’m interested in intimacy and relationships. Love is a trigger. I don’t like to control or set up photographs, I prefer to discover. I like to look for things not necessarily…

How did you come to art? I first started learning to draw as a child from my father who was a very good draughtsman. He taught me the basics of drawing in perspective. My whole family did a lot of drawing. My mother was a competent watercolourist, too. I didn’t do much art at school and it was never one…

Please introduce yourself to us! I was born in the Galilee region of Israel to a Jewish Iraqi immigrant family. In 2009, after completing my art studies in Jerusalem, I spent six months in New York City before moving to Berlin. My interest in undertaking these new experiences was driven by a growing curiosity to discover active, challenging and experimental…

© Paul Duerincks How did you find your voice as an artist? I’ve always wanted to create striking and strong imagery that communicates directly and immediately. Images that bypass the mind and goes straight into the gut…. Soulful, timeless imagery. Initially, my artistic voice originated from a series of dreams about light. Photography became the perfect medium and metaphor for…

Why do you make art? Why do we do things, is a question that have interested me for many years. I think the deeper you understand the complexity of decision making, the more in doubt you get about your own. Doing art is one of the strangest thing a human being can do. It has no obvious explanation. You were…