Vee Speers - Portraits Beyond Reality
Vee Speers is an Australian-born, Paris-based photographer internationally recognized for her powerful and highly constructed portraiture. Working at the intersection of photography, storytelling, and fine art, Speers creates visually striking images that explore identity, transformation, and the emotional complexity of the human experience.
Her work is defined by meticulously staged compositions, dramatic color palettes, and a strong narrative presence. Each series unfolds as a self-contained universe, while collectively forming a broader meditation on resilience, vulnerability, and empowerment.
In the upcoming exhibition at In The Gallery Copenhagen, a curated selection of works will be presented from several of her most significant series:
Dystopia explores themes of innocence confronted by societal tension, portraying youth in a suspended moment between fragility and strength. The series evokes both vulnerability and quiet defiance.
Transcendence reflects on transformation and spiritual elevation, presenting figures that appear suspended between earthly presence and symbolic rebirth.
Thirteen captures the delicate threshold between childhood and adolescence, portraying young subjects in a moment of psychological and emotional transition.
Botanica shifts the focus toward a more organic and poetic dimension, intertwining the human figure with floral and natural elements, suggesting renewal and cyclical transformation.
From her recent body of work, The King’s Court, the exhibition includes a powerful piece that reinterprets portraiture through a contemporary lens of authority, theatricality, and identity.
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Speers studied Fine Art and Photography at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane before relocating to Paris in 1990, where she continues to live and work. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and are held in numerous prominent private and institutional collections.
Both cinematic and intimate, Vee Speers’ images invite viewers into carefully constructed worlds that feel timeless yet emotionally immediate offering a compelling reflection on identity and the human condition.
In The Gallery is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Vee Speers and is currently preparing her solo exhibition in Copenhagen, opening March 2026.