The often overlooked value of the everyday
Corryna Geers focuses on the value of the everyday, which is often overlooked in our hectic world. Her work revolves around making the seemingly insignificant visible. She explores everyday scenes and details: the play of light on a surface, a crumpled towel, a quiet, lived-in room. In a world defined by speed and overstimulation, she consciously chooses stillness, attention, and care.
Her artistic practice is a form of self-care and world-care. By paying close attention to what is often ignored, she aims to reconnect people with the spaces and objects that ground us—offering moments of reflection, wonder, and reconnection.
Zooming in on objects and out on spaces, looking from the outside in—like scenes from a film—her work finds preciousness in fleeting moments and the emotions they evoke: the sudden clarity of an aha moment, or a quiet sense of awe.
Through photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, and the sewing machine, Corryna explores these experiences and the meaning of domestic spaces and ordinary things. She sees them not as trivial, but as vessels of memory, craftsmanship, and emotion.
Inspired by artists such as Edward Hopper, Henri Matisse, and Arjan van Helmond, she seeks quiet intimacy and a figurative visual language that leaves space for personal interpretation. She experiments with “lived perspective,” where things may not align perfectly, but emotionally resonate.
