The places are deserted and the onlooker is denied entry, the spectator’s gaze is halted at the surface of the opaque image. There is neither an apparent top nor bottom, neither foreground nor background as the image of Jan Adriaans maintain a confusion among planes. The photographer frames his subjects close-up and reinforces the scrambling of relationships among scales and depths. The unilateral perspective of the camera completes the blurring of perceptions. Stripped of any concept of space, the ‘platitude’ of the subject matter suddenly becomes literal. These ‘’interiors’, so evasive and confounding, offer nothing more than surfaces with their textures and colours. The faded blood red of worn carpet, the metallic echo of a mirror, the dull sheen of wood veneer. The spirit of the place gradually transpires through it’s skin. Raphaëlle Stopin, Festival International de Photography, Hyères
