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Dirk Jan Jager 2021 was an exhibition of oil paintings and ink drawings by artist Dirk Jan Jager in Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Thanks to all muses ! The nude models and friends of the artist depicted on the canvas were present during the show. Thus the spectators were at the same time subject in the works of art. Who's looking at whom?

Among the muses were: Rose Akras from São Paulo, Rudy Henriquez from Curacao, and David Bowie from Brixton, London.

Dirk Jan Jager (Heiloo, 1965) is a performance artist working in a variety of media. He began his career as a painter, and in his performance work he still approaches painting from unusual perspectives. In many of his performances the living surface of the body is defined as a site of intervention. It becomes a blank canvas, yet its surface does not exactly receive, or host, images.

Jager alludes to motifs from painting or mythical figures to stage the body, allowing the familiar image to act as a second skin, which in the course of the performance is gradually peeled off, to reveal an anonymous, generic body. A central element in his work is the gesture of erasing identities, and images that support them.

Another aspect of his work is the interest in rituals and rites of passage, and transitional states that give birth to a new person, within a performative situation which involves the covering and peeling off the full surface of the body with different materials.