Borders / No Borders : Historical and contemporary photography of Belgium at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin (Germany)
Borders/NoBorders : Historical and contemporary photography of Belgium presented between 22 October and 21 November at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin, consists of a selection of works that come on the one hand from the collections of the Museum of Photography in Charleroi and on the other hand of significant works by contemporary artists of the French-speaking Community presented for the most part throughout the seven showings of the International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts of Liege (BIP).
The exhibition offers a transversal and trans-historical look at photographic creation in Belgium. Built around relationships of style and meaning, and not on a strict chronology, Borders/No Borders aims at contrasting important historical works with the contemporary works of well-known artists and young talents. It also intends to offer an original look at the themes, the atmosphere, the movements and that forms that pass through Belgian photographic and visual creation.
Through various usages, remarkable relationships appear between the works of the past and the present, as if an undefinable « Belgian » identity managed to appear in spite of everything, in a certain sensitivity to the landscapes and faces or in formal work tinged with poetry and (self)-mockery that obviously cannot fail to call to mind, whichever way you look at it, the surrealist tradition. As its title indicates, this exhibition thus intends to present Belgium, in all the nuance and subtle intelligence that the high level creation offers, as a country where the idea of a border (between yesterday and today, between here and elsewhere, between humans and their environment) is continually questioned…
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Commissioners : Anne-Françoise Lesuisse, Marc Wendelski, Marc Vausort.
A catalogue will be published.
With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International, the French-speaking Community of Wallonia-Brussels, the German-speaking Community, the Walloon Region, the City of Liege, the Province of Liege and the Léon Eeckman Insurance Companies.
Lara Gasparotto, Sister's Blood, Inkjet Print on matte paper 2010
© Lara Gasparotto
Gustave Marissiaux without title, 1908, Photoengraving extracted from « Visions d’artiste » (Inv. MPC 86/1344), 17.6x13 cm / (framed 50x40 cm)
© Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi
