Willem de Rooij: Pierre Verger in Suriname

In his work Willem de Rooij (*1969 in Beverwijk, NL) reflects on the genealogy and reception of images, through artistic research and appropriation. He understands images as constructed connotative complexes, both in their modes of representation and in how they are perceived. De Rooij has been teaching extensively since the late 1990s and has been a Professor of Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 2006.

De Rooij’s work Pierre Verger in Suriname now makes a particular group of photographs accessible to a wider audience for the first time, through a new installation at Portikus.