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Dirk Jan Jager (Heiloo, 1965) is a Dutch visual artist. His work includes painting, photography and performance art. He is also curator of exhibitions and board member of the Amsterdam artists' associations Arti et Amicitiae and Outline Foundation.
He is a performance artist working in a variety of media. He began his career as a painter, and in his performance work he still approaches painting from unusual perspectives. In many of his performances the living surface of the body is defined as a site of intervention. It becomes a blank canvas, yet its surface does not exactly receive, or host, images. Jager alludes to motifs from painting or mythical figures to stage the body, allowing the familiar image to act as a second skin, which in the course of the performance is gradually peeled off, to reveal an anonymous, generic body.
