Noor Nuyten, Sky (from the series: Swiped Horizon), 2019, Photoprint on Plexiglass

Noor Nuyten creates conceptual works that appeal strongly to the imagination of the viewer. Her works often provide new ways to engage in a critical but humorous relationship with existing systems. Knowing this, what might have inspired Nuyten for this artwork?

The fingerprints and smudges on smartphone screens

The sky as seen from her bedroom window

The river Amstel she walks past on her way to her studio

The sea

Noor Nuyten's Swiped Horizon – Stormy Sky is a photographic series that captures the abstract landscapes formed by fingerprints and smudges on smartphone screens, rendered as photo prints on acrylic. Nuyten shows how these everyday digital gestures can form vast compositions which are like natural horizons.

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