Through the use of fictive elements Sofie Knijff mixes documentary and staged images. While this approach may differ from series to series, she always creates imaginary or dreamlike images. She draws out a different reality that may not be visible but can be felt or sensed. In this way a world arises in which the fictional and the real communicate and become difficult to distinguish.You could say that her work is steeped in aspects of the theatrical. In this regard she have been strongly influenced by notions of playing and fantasy that she developed during her time as a theatre performer, It influences her perception of reality. What do people cling to? What is their true face? What are the masks they wear in their daily lives? How influential is their environment or the circumstances from which they come? In her work she offer an interpretation, an illustration, and tries to break out of these patterns.Therefore she approaches spaces as scenery and people as characters, leading to an image-language that is frequently an attempt to give form to this other dimension and to make it recognizable. undefined

More on Google