Having primarily photographed vacant interior spaces—museums, depots, and newly constructed residential buildings—in the past, Satijn Panyigay now shifts her attention to urban exteriors with her new series “Nightcall“. Embarking on solitary nocturnal strolls through her hometown of Utrecht and Frankfurt am Main, she seeks unintentional compositions within urban structures.

Utilizing the minimal light of the moon and street lamps in her analogue photographs, Panyigay blurs the distinction between them. Thus, amidst the bleak, monotonous, and utilitarian industrial landscape, captivating contrasts emerge.

Paradoxically, the absence of people in Satijn Panyigay's photographs evokes a sense of presence. Drawn to the ethereal realm of the night and its enigmatic ambiance, the artist invites us into encounters with a parallel world, reflecting our own, albeit with an eerie distance.

Satijn Panyigay (b. 1988 in Nijmegen, Netherlands) studied photography at the Utrecht School of Art, where she continues to live and work. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Centre D’art Contemporain de Meymac, France, and in the Netherlands at Museum Escher in the Palace; Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen; Fotomuseum Den Haag; Museum Tot Zover; Verwey Museum Haarlem, Villa Mondriaan. Her works are in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Museum W., DZ Bank, KPMG, among others, as well as in numerous private collections. Panyigay’s artist book VOID was published by Hartmann Books (Germany) in 2023.