What is your substance, Whereof are you made? - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 53

Human has only one form. What is there so special about you? Through photography, one can capture and express millions of unusual forms of the human beings.

In western philosophy, the male conceptualized the human identity throughout the history. The body was seen as a closed system, self contained and self directed, based on a philosophy of being. The female however could not fit in this concept, as she has the potential to flow and transform, and to become more than one. To capture a female spinning in a colorful shawl, with the strong reflection of one's beauty and the imitation of one's richness, the photographer skillfully controls the dynamic of each breezy shot. Artist Simone Boon freezes the moments of extravagant female poses, and takes us to a next level, beyond the beautiful picture frame.

Photographs are often called moment mori, since the moment captured does not exist anymore when one is looking at the still image. In Simone's photos, she gives a different view: she tries to capture the becoming, instead of the being, it is not the moment here and now but it includes the moment of before and after. Simone's moving portraits of young women, unfrozen from the frame, that is aiming to give a different perspective on the essence of identity. They are based on a philosophy of becoming instead of a philosophy of being. When there is form in her portraiture, it is the photographic capture of transitions in time, a record of more moments into one image, unveiling invisible patterns and shapes we could not have captured with our bare eyes. "In reality the body is changing form at every moment, or rather there is no form since form is immobile, and the reality is movement. What is real is the continual change of form. Form is only a snapshot view of a transition." French philosopher Henry Bergson. Creative evolution

Simone Boon is Dutch from origin, and has lived in many different countries since her childhood, such as British Borneo, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Belgium, Malaysia, Austria, and since 2004 she is based in Hong Kong.

Cocktail Reception: March 3 at 6:30pm