Rozemarlin Borkent Dutch, b. 1987

Rozemarlin Borkent is a Netherlands-based artist born in 1987. She graduated from the KABK, Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. Growing up next to the beach, the vast expanse acted as a fresh canvas for her to dream in her own world.

Inspired by the beauty of diversity and different perspectives, her work revolves around creating new beings by combining photos from diverse individuals, old photographs, and Al. Through her work, she aims to immortalize the essence of humanity’s soul.

Rozemarlin’s art has been featured in Vogue and exhibited at prestigious events like the PhotoVogue Festival and London Art Biennale. Her creations capture the beauty and complexity of human existence, inviting viewers on a journey of imagination and introspection.

"I start with a rough creative vision for the artwork, which is the starting point for my exploratory phase. In this phase I generate dozens of images using AI and select the images that strongly match my idea. In Photoshop I start building with different parts of these images to create a base. I then carefully select elements from antique and contemporary photographs to merge into an expressive portrait. At each stage I manually manipulate the images to refine every detail of my work until I am satisfied with the end result. I see this whole process as painting with photography and AI. My work does not represent the world as it is in reality, but rather as it is in my imagination. There are many elements in my work that show this; time, reality and culture dimensions, mixed media, a fusion of aspects of photography and painting, etc. This results in a layered work in which all these parts come together to form an intriguing image.”