In Hans van Asch's work, birds appear within carefully constructed worlds. They appear as iconic figures, as part of an open situation, or as the main character in a small anecdote.
Sometimes the bird takes an almost solemn position, for example on a pedestal or within an architectural frame. At the same time, it remains a real animal that does not always conform to its surroundings. In other works, something seems to be happening without the image saying exactly what. The bird may wait, look, arrive, or leave, creating room for a story that the viewer can form.
Hans van Asch (Dordrecht, 1964) works as a visual artist with photography as his medium. The environments in his images are invented and controlled, while the bird brings chance, behaviour, and a presence of its own. That tension between control and freedom forms the core of