This exhibition introduces a mature and sober phase in Dutch photographer and film-maker Erwin Olaf's career. Olaf is mostly known in the Netherlands as an artist-photographer. Until recently, internationally he has been known by his curiously 'perverted' and 'elegant' images of beautiful people in situations which have taken on a surreal turns (see his ads for Diesel Jeans). GRIEF is the third and final series of photographs which follows RAIN and HOPE. GRIEF is a highly stylized, 1960's variation on what may have been the behind the scene narrative of the Kennedy family after President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

The curious combination of self-consciously beautified and eroticized women and their 'grief'-ridden state reminds one of Pasolini's Theorema (1968). One can imagine parallel phases of 'seduction', 'confession' and 'transformation' in Olaf's society women. With recent success of his work, the artist is working toward a series of highly anticipated exhibitions in Canada, Australia, United States, & Belgium.