ROSA MAAS
born 2002, Helmond, Netherlands 

Rosa Maas is a visual artist with a deep fascination for the internet: the approximately 3.2 billion photos uploaded every day, the endless media landscape and its images that keep circling around and get intensified in a sea of real and fake
It is in this paradox where Rosa places herself as an artist. Rosa’s work often begins with an image that she finds online and stays with her: the photograph of our Earth taken from the Apollo 8, a selfie in front of the Mona Lisa, the image of a beach with a palm tree, two chairs in the middle and the sea in the distance in a holiday brochure. In her projects, Rosa adopts an investigative approach. She combines a humorous with a critical tone by engaging with these images in an often ironic manner. In doing so, she touches on geopolitical themes such as tourism, cartography and social power structures, posing questions about life in our current society, how we navigate it, how we shape it and who decides how it gets shaped.


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THE SKY IS THE LIMIT2024


The first picture of our earth from the moon, taken by astronauts of the Apollo 8 in 1968, was for most people unevitable proof of a round earth. But not for all. According to Flat Earthers, all imagery by NASA is fake. The famous image from the Apollo 8 was shot in a studio just as all imagery from the moon, images taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars come from Devon Island in Canada and satelite images of our earth are made in Photoshop. According to some of these flat earthers, there are other lands that we haven’t explored, but on our own disk-shaped earth. 

The percentage of people that believe that the earth is flat has risen in the last couple of years. Simultaniously, image editing programs as photoshop and AI (deep fake) tools have become more advanced. 

Even though photography as a medium is known for being a reflection or what is there, of truth, It has always been a medium that allows us to manipulate what we have people see. Can we trust images? How can we prove images to be true, or can we prove what is not true? With the use of Google Earth and AI, I went to discover these unexplored lands on our earth. The earth is a disk and we are the center of the universe. The sky is the limit.




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