Mels van Zutphen

video - film - fotografie - geluid - installatie

Nature and science are major inspirations for Mels van Zutphen. What intrigues him is natural phenomena in themselves, and the impression they make on us as humans. At the same time, he is interested in fields of science that study and quantify the occurrence.

Van Zutphen does not aim to find hard evidence or investigate the truth. By observing, documenting and staging, he seeks to put our perceptions of ‘reality’ to the test. In doing so, he playfully displays the beauty and absurdity of the human drive to explain our place in the cosmos.