A-Blok
Chloe Rosser
Form & Function
A-Blok – POI 24
Dorpsstraat 91, former site TIO Campus Wico
GPS 51.210563° NB 5.422140° OL
Open all days 1.00 – 5.00 pm
Chloe Rosser | Form & Function
Born and raised in London, Chloe Rosser is a photographic artist of English and Polish decent.
Rosser’s artistic practice explores our complicated relationship with the human body, primarily through photography, but also through film. Her photographic book ‘Form & Function’ is a culmination of her work over a size year period.
Rosser received a Bachelors in Photography from Falmouth University. She has exhibited worldwide, with solo exhibitions in London and New York, and numerous group shows such as Circulations Festival, 209 Women, Athens Photo Festival, and Photo London.
She was a winner in the 2016 ArtSlant Prize, shortlisted for the British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Britain 2019 and won first place at the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019. Her short film made with Scottish Ballet won Best Mini at Portland Dance Film Festival 2023.
Rosser’s work has been featured in publications including Wall Street International, British Journal of Photography, The Observer, Unseen Platform, and Fisheye Magazine.
Form & Function
Form & Function explores our fraught relationship with the human body. These contorted nudes delicately transform what should be intimately familiar into foreign sculptures.
The work looks at the relationships between the figures, studying their intimate interactions as they support and rely on each other in these poses. Positioned like sculptures, they are placed in empty rooms. Subtle familiar markers suggest these spaces to be homes. They are distinctly lived in but intentionally stripped bare.
Evidence of humanity appears in a red mark on the skin from a recent scratch, or the subtle imprint from a piece of clothing. Here, people of different genders, ages, sexualities, body shapes and skin tones are treated equally, becoming anonymous structures that confront conventional ideas of beauty. In an age when we are saturated with digitally altered and enhanced imagery, these real, fleshy sculptures challenge how we look at the human body.
