>THISPLACEMENT<
Photographic works by Chris Angelovski
At first glance, the world is familiar: a building, a tree, a skyline, a fragment of the city. Look again, and something has shifted.
In >THISPLACEMENT<, The Hague–based photographer Chris Angelovski takes the familiar forms of architecture, urban environments, and natural landscapes and reimagines them through reflection, repetition, and symmetry. Structures become patterns, ordinary perspectives turn extraordinary, and the recognizable slips into the abstract. His photographs occupy an intriguing space between reality and imagination, inviting us to reconsider not only the places we inhabit, but the ways in which we perceive them.
The exhibition's title offers several interpretations: displacement, placement, this place, this placement. Each suggests a different way of looking, raising a deceptively simple question: when the familiar is transformed, are we seeing a different place, or merely seeing the same place differently?
The Gallery at Night Barber Studios is delighted to present >THISPLACEMENT< as our inaugural exhibition—a fitting beginning for a gallery dedicated to looking at the world from unexpected perspectives.
>THISPLACEMENT<
PHOTOS BY CHRIS ANGELOVSKI
Architecture, urban and landscape photography
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chris Angelovski (born 1976) is an architectural, urban and landscape photographer based in The Hague, Netherlands. Raised in the north of the country, with family roots in Skopje, Macedonia, he grew up in a multicultural household. From an early age, he was fascinated by the ways people shape their surroundings, and by the distinctive approaches to place and space found across cultures.
His introduction to photography came through his father, whose enthusiasm for the medium helped nurture Chris’s photographic eye. For many years, however, another creative pursuit took precedence: music production. It was later in life that he returned to photography and began developing his own visual language.
Entirely self-taught in photography and post-processing, Chris combines technical expertise with an intuitive way of seeing. When working with a camera, he prefers to let composition, light, color and subject matter emerge from the atmosphere of a place and his response to it.
EQUIPMENT
Sony A7R V and Ricoh GR II cameras
Sony G / GM and Sigma Art prime lenses