Merette Uiterwaal

Merette Uiterwaal, born in 1990 in Amsterdam, is a visual artist primarily working with photography. Her colour blindness provides her with a unique perspective on the world. Instead of a hundred shades of red, she sees only four, blending into brown, yellow, and orange. Colours appear to her as muted and grayish.

Her photographic style straddles the line between abstraction and figuration. Her work is based on recognizable objects, but the movement and blur in her images transform them into abstract shapes. This serves as a metaphor for her condition, visually reflecting the distortion of reality in her work. Her work is the fruit of her artistic endeavor to delve into colour perception, to explore how subjective and individual it can be. "What do you see?" she is often asked, and with these works she invites viewers to contemplate the nuances and complexities of perception.