Rachel de Joode

Rachel de Joode (b.1979) Rachel de Joode is a Berlin based sculptor, photographer, and installation artist.
==Early life and education==
Rachel de Joode studied art at the Art Academie ST’Joost Breda, The Netherlands and then time-based arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. 
==Work==
Rachel de Joode has become one of the defining Postinternet artists. After graduating, de Joode began working with photographs and short films that eventually evolved into sculptures that blurred the line between digital representation and an object. De Joode's work can be seen as a version of ephemeral reality, a surface or texture that can be seen as tactile but not felt because what appear to be sculptural materials are photographs. When she chooses to combine these photographs with actual materials, the illusion is magnified and a new form of naturalness is created as product of the artificial and the physical.
Images of de Joode's collaboration with Donna Huanca began circulating on internet in 2010. Conjunction was an interpretation of an astrological event that involved two performers moving through an installation as if practicing some forgotten ritualhttp://highlike.org/text/donna-huanca-and-rachel-de-joode/. De Joode's interest in the relationship between photography, physical reality and illusion appear in the documentation of the installation/performance. De Joode said that the internet influenced her in the way she perceives and processes visual images. For her, the photograph becomes a tool for the mediation of physical experience with matter. In effect, the networked documentation of an image becomes the artwork. 
In her 2016 exhibition at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, de Joode explored the relationship between, photography, internet and her sculptural objects. A self-taught sculptor, de Joode had started working in three dimensions by making still lifes, photographing and arranging objects and thinking about the semiotics of objects. At a certain point de Joode stopped photographing her "things" (a manner she chooses to identify her work to avoid categorization) and started thinking of the art gallery as a stage that was meant to be photographed, documented and distributed through internet. 
In the exhibition Instead of Pieces, a Play, (Galerie
Christophe Gaillard, Paris, 2018), de Joode, now as an artist protagonist sets up a stage in the middle of the gallery with actors dressed as artists presenting the exhibits. On the double walls hang small ceramic nude figurines representing the artist while anonymous arms pierce the walls to hold sculptural objects. The whole combines literal performance with virtual and real textures and photographic assemblages. 
De Joode's Museum exhibitions include Myths of the Marble (2017) at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (ICA) and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, OsloHoegsberg, Milena, Klein, Alex (2018) Myths of the Marble Berlin: Sternberg Press, Rachel de Joode, Flat Nature / Surface Bodies (2017) Fort Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam , Gestures of Tomorrow (2016) at Kunstverein Nürnberg and http://2014-2018.kunstvereinnuernberg.de/Ausstellungen/2016/Gestures%20of%20Tomorrow and Metabolism (2015) at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
==Bibliography==
* Artviewer (May 18, 2015) "Rachel de Joode at Neumeister Bar-Am" Art Viewer Rachel de Joode at Neumeister Bar-Am – Art Viewer(retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Canbaz, Melissa (2014) "Rachel de Joode" Artforum Neumeister Bar-Am(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* Cordray, Julianne (July 29, 2016) "Nature // The Semiotics of Surface: An Interview with Rachel de Joode" Berlinartlink Nature // The Semiotics of Surface: An Interview with Rachel de Joode(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* Cotton, Charlotte ed. (2015) Photography Is Magic New York: Aperture
* Dandini de Sylva, Alessandro "Rachel de Joode: Metabolism" Fotographia XIVFOTOGRAFIA | Rachel de Joode: Metabolism(retrieved March 10, 2020)
* Dessent, Blaire (October 27, 2015) "Rachel de Joode’s Fleshy Artworks Mesh Sculpture and Photography" Artsy Rachel de Joode’s Fleshy Artworks Mesh Sculpture and Photography(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* Drumm, Rerrin (April 2, 2012) "Rachel De Joode, The Magic-surreal, Inflatable Neo-Dada Work of a Still Life Sculptor" Coolhunting Rachel de Joode (retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Elders, Zippora (November 6, 2015) "Interview with Rachel De Joode" Foam Interview with Rachel de Joode(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* Folks, Eva (August 28, 2015) "Rachel de Joode, Soft Inquiry (2015) exhibition photos" AQNB Rachel de Joode, Soft Inquiry (2015) exhibition photos(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* Hoegsberg, Milena and Klein, Alex (2018) Myths of the Marble Berlin: Sternberg Press 
* Hutchens, Jessyca (August 16, 2011) "Rachel de Joode" Berlinartlink RACHEL DE JOODE(retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Jordan, Marvin (2014) "Steciw and de Joode | Open for Business" dismagazine Steciw and de Joode | Open for Business(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* Klein, Alex (June 9, 2018) "Exposition Solo Show : Rachel de JOODE « Instead of Pieces, a Play »" Actuart Exposition Solo Show : Rachel de JOODE « Instead of Pieces, a Play »(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* LVL3 (July 19, 2011) "Artist of the Week: Rachel de Joode" LVL3 Gallery, Chicago Artist of the Week: Rachel de Joode (retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Mallett, Whitney (2014) "Rachel De Joode" Editorial MagazineIssue 9 (retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Mousse Magazine (2014) "Rachel de Joode 'The Molten Inner Core' at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin" Mousse Magazine Rachel de Joode "The Molten Inner Core" at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin •(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* ofluxone (November 19, 2015) "Porosity by Rachel de Joode @ Galerie Christophe Gaillard" Fluxo Porosity by Rachel de Joode @ Galerie Christophe Gaillard(retrieved March 8, 2020)
* ofluxone (October 23, 2017)"Flat Nature / Surface Bodies by Ra­chel de Joode at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen" Fluxo Flat Nature / Surface Bodies by Ra­chel de Joode at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen(retrieved March 10, 2020)
* "Rachel De Joode on her Transcendent Sculptures and Not Being an Artist" Material Magazine #32 Spring/Summer 2017 RACHEL DE JOODE ON HER TRANSCENDENT SCULPTURES(retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Rakowski, Kelly (march 5, 2013) "Rachel de Joode, Artist" Sight Unseen Rachel de Joode, Artist(retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Tique (February 12, 2018) "Six Questions: Rachel de Joode" TiqueSix Questions: Rachel de Joode(retrieved March 9, 2020)
* Venturi, Riccardo (January, 2016) "Rachel de Joode
* GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD" Artforum New York
* Verni, Charles (2014) Rachel de Joode Akoya Books Rachel De Joode(retrieved March 10, 2020)
==In the media==
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==External links==
* Rachel de Joode on instagram
* Rachel de Joode - 30 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy
* Rachel de JOODE - Galerie Christophe Gaillard
* Interview with Rachel de Joode
==References==	
Category:Dutch Artists
Category:1979 births
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Category:Sculptors