Wijnanda Deroo
Gertrudis Bocanegra

Initially Deroo took her photographs in black and white, but in the mid-1990s she switched to colour.

This gave her work an entirely different character, something which is confirmed when one considers the body of work she made during a trip to Mexico – still without people, these spaces are intriguing for their clusters of objects.

Deroo herself points to the importance of composition, light, colour, and the large format of her photographs.
“When you look at one of the spaces that I have photographed, I want you to have the feeling that you are standing in that space.”

In fact, Deroo takes portraits of spaces that are autonomous in and of themselves. In any case, the three chock-a-block interiors of an ice-cream parlour, a barber’s and a closed shop, have produced gorgeous colour combinations, visual interactions between recognizable objects and compositional elements.