The work is beautiful. Always using himself as the subject, Veluw graphs materials to his own bust and photographs them with neutral backgrounds. In the veneered series there is a more complete obscuring of identity and Levi really takes on a sort of sex-less proto-form quality. I'm especially drawn to the hair pieces because, like any one who has had long hair, the feeling of wet hair on the back of shoulders or the front of the face can be an eerie and heavy sensation. It can be kind of suffocating.
The older work is nice as well. That small gesture which can make a photograph take a turn for the horrific but still tinged with a bit of humor reminds me also of Erwin Wurm. It makes the body look really clumsy, vulnerable.
The artist's description is a little heavy handed and the video wouldn't work when I opened it but there is a bunch of lovely photographs oh his website exhibting how this repetition can be quite limitless.
