Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare and on the value of

and on the value of fiction in our daily lives

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

in versions that are painted (on glass) or embroidered (by his mother) and the distinction between the copy and the original doesn’t interest him in the slightest

The overview of his photographic practice explores the evolution of its visual language

capturing the lasting impact of childhood on adult identity

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare and on the value ofPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective