PAULINE PRIOR was born in Indonesia in 1955, and educated at D.A.M.U. in Pague at Gerrit Rietweld Academie, Amsterdam. She has done freelance photography for several magazines and taken part in theatre productions.

The Dutch Perspective Peepshow

THEA V.D. HEUVEL was born in Holland in 1953, and educated at Fotovakschool Apeldoorn. She and Pauline Prior have organized several exhibitions together.
Among her exhibitions are:

Theater Foto Triënnale, Novi Sad, Yogoslavia’89

Centralne Muzeum Wlokietnicwe, Lodz, Poland ’91

Photobiënnale Enschede, Dutch and Spanish photography’93 (with Thea v.d. Heuvel)

Wilshire Courtyard Gallery, Los Angeles, USA ’93

Idaho aaahiostorical Museum, Worldshow, Netherlands ’94

Galerij ten Weijngaert, 3 Dutch Photographers, Brussels, Belgium’95

Slideshow on the open road, Amsterdam’95

Biennale Europea Fotografisa d’Autore, Florence-Fiesole, Italy’96

“ This art concept plays with the principles of photography. A country, a special place or a building will be photographed and placed behind magnifying glasses. They give the images a special perspective effect. Using the dazzle light for presentation, the light sparkle. The construction with all these small boxes gives the possibility for unusual combinations. For example The Dutch Perspective Peepshow, the Netherlands, the combination is made between the mysterious underwater world and the Dutch mainland.

There are several layers in the work. They handle about perspective, effect is best visible from a certain distance and nearby one can discover all the details. Another layer is about the ree world and the world of imagination. It shows the world of this moment, it´s photography between art and journalism.

Good documentation of the Dutch Perspective Peepshow is difficult, by photographing you loose the special effect, for a small amount it´s possible to get your own little peepshow. “

PAULINE PRIOR & THEA v.d. HEUVEL stay in Tampere for a Ten-Day-Residence, they will join and enjoy our cultural celebrations, the light of the North and the daily life in our town. They will take and transform these impressions into her own individual art forms, inspired by the ideas of BACKLIGHT and the City of Tampere. Results will be put together for a multicultural documentary on our Triennale and on City of Tampere.