OIKOS is a photographic exploration of how we relate to our surroundings, physically, and emotionally. Space is never entirely neutral. It can contain or protect, isolate or open up. A windowless room might feel like a safe cocoon, or like a suffocating prison. My images are suggestions of spaces where presence and absence coincide. Emptiness is never truly empty; it carries meaning. The title OIKOS, from Ancient Greek, refers to house, family, home. This series is a visual exploration of how inner and outer worlds influence each other, and how that interaction shapes our experience of space.
Annet Neijmeijer (Netherlands) is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In her work, she explores concepts of space, time and light. Annet’s research into these elements and their interplay leads to photographs where the boundaries between reality and imagination and between the finite and the infinite blur. They are created illusions of enclosed spaces and boundless landscapes, of environments where linear constraints dissolve and where light seeps through the cracks. In May 2024, Annet Neijmeijer graduated cum laude from the Photo Academy (Amsterdam) with her project AEON.
