(b Breda, 26 Oct 1946). Dutch photographer and conceptual artist. He first trained as a carpenter before studying at the academy in Breda (1963–5). From 1970 to 1980 he specialized in photographs of volatile and ephemeral materials such as smoke or shadow, which he referred to as ‘photo-sculptures’. Like other conceptual artists in the late 1960s, he used photography to create personal worlds and to visualize ideas rather than to record reality. The photograph Untitled (1979; see 1983 exh. cat., p. 159) shows a man crouching on a table that he is sawing in half; on either side of him are a telescope and a microscope. Inherent in the image are attitudes to death, suicide and existence, and the relationship between art and science. Language has been important for Mol in all the media in which he has worked, and his works are often titled in English. In 1985 he produced a series of works on the theme of waan (delusion), slightly altering this word and placing it in different visual and verbal contexts to evoke a broad range of possible meanings, associations and emotions.