Cathelijn van Goor lives and works in Amsterdam, where she creates large-scale paintings and graphite drawings on paper in several sizes. Her works present futuristic images blurring the boundary between the figurative and the abstract. Van Goor is inspired by places where human bodies become traffic. She gathers slow shutter speed footage at the metro station and busy streets. She analyzes visually how people move through passing time. When she focuses on the individual figures, time appears to be finite. However, when the focus is shifted to the stream of passing figures, the individuals dissolve, an atmosphere of eternity is being created. Through using images that show human locomotion in an urban lanscape the merging of the disolving people with the background results into robot-like figures and a futuristic atmosphere is created.
Her work has been exhibited at Glowlab, Fountain Art Fair Miami, Art Pie Amsterdam, Bridge Art fair NYC, 2×2Projects Amsterdam, Service Garage Amsterdam and RC de Ruimte, Ijmuiden. Currently, van Goor has a solo exhibition at 2×2Projects in Amsterdam.