Annihilation - Kurt Deruyter

The photo comes from the 'Siyaha' project, a meditative visualization of the spiritual journey that a Brussels Muslim woman undertook in search of a better understanding of her religion, Islam. A journey that eventually led her to Sufism. She visited Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Senegal and Uzbekistan, countries that have an important Sufi tradition. Kurt followed her on this spiritual journey and made a photographic 'record' of her spiritual quest.

Siyaha is an episode from a broader project 'Halfway Home' that investigates how migration affects our society. This is a pigmented gelatin carbon transfer print on watercolor paper, made by the artist.

Kurt Deruyter studied Sociology and Journalism. After his studies, he first worked for a while as a (photo)journalist and then sought a broader and more artistic interpretation for his favorite subjects. He is fascinated by anthropology and landscape philosophy and in a lyrical-philosophical style he likes to look at subjects and landscapes that are somewhat 'twisting' and where the vision can never be unambiguous.

Since 2014 he has been working on a broad project 'Halfway Home', about how migration influences our society. His work is in both museum and private collections.