After graduating, de Joode began working with photographs and short films that eventually evolved into sculptures that blurred the line between digital representation and an object.

De Joode's work can be seen as a version of ephemeral reality, a surface or texture that can be seen as tactile but not felt because what appear to be sculptural materials are photographs.

When she chooses to combine these photographs with actual materials, the illusion is magnified and a new form of naturalness is created as product of the artificial and the physical.

[3] In her 2016 exhibition at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, de Joode explored the relationship between, photography, internet and her sculptural objects.

[5] De Joode's Museum exhibitions include Myths of the Marble (2017) at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (ICA) and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo,[6] Rachel de Joode, Flat Nature / Surface Bodies (2017) Fort Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam,[7] Gestures of Tomorrow (2016) at Kunstverein Nürnberg[8] and Metabolism (2015) at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome[9]