MoeT Dutch

Art MoeT is a collaboration between Monique van Laake and Teun Anders. Their work lies at the intersection of photography, painting, installation and digital processing. Drawing on their own disciplines, they create layered visual worlds in which recognition and alienation alternate. 

Monique van Laake (1962, graduated from Amsterdam Photo Academy) is a photographer and visual artist. Her work revolves around the human face as a place of complexity, desire and surrender. With a background in leadership and personal development, she brings an exceptional eye for nuance to her images. She pays attention to what is not immediately visible: a boundary in a glance, a silence beneath the skin, a desire that has not yet found language.

Van Laake works with natural light and in the studio, following an intuitive, exploratory approach. In her portraits, she searches for the moment before the pose, the shift in energy, the click before the click. Her images are still or in motion, but always open. They invite you to slow down and leave room for interpretation, like a memory you can't place, but that still feels true.

Teun Anders (1956) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist working from concept and theme. His body of work explores the layered complexity of the human face and the dynamics of projection, memory, and estrangement. He creates in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, digital manipulation, mixed media, and installation.
He graduated cum laude from the Willem de Kooning Academy of Art in Rotterdam. After a successful career as a designer (co-founder of design agency VBAT), he shifted his focus entirely to autonomous artistic practice. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.