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Karin Borghouts photographs places: from interiors to buildings to cityscapes. Not infrequently, her images are reconstructions of a created reality, or freeze a transition in time or space. The three-dimensional environment is reduced to an autonomous world on paper, a kind of still life. With a sense of detail, Borghouts attempts to capture both the archetypal meaning of space and the atmosphere defined by traces of human activity. As a result, unconscious perceptions touch on collective memories. Located between documentary photography and fine art, Borghouts' work contains numerous references to painting, the discipline in which she herself was initially formed. Borghouts develops her own artistic projects, but also often works on commission for museums, publishing houses, architects and artists. As of 2011, for example, she was site photographer for the renovation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).