CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (2020)

Conference of the Birds (2019)
published by Art Paper Editions

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58 pages
ills b&w
24×29,3 cm
Edition of 500
Linnen hardcover
Otabinding
ISBN 9789493146099
September 2019

’’Vanoverberghe’s Conference of the Birds is a body of work in which the artist has forensically interpreted a site in Iran by looking for observable characteristics which could potentially declare, in photographic terms, clues to the decimation of its being. The site, previously burnt to the ground has been left to a ruinous existence. This village that Vanoverberghe has documented challenges our need for answers with a solution to look at it through metaphor, sculptural analysis and non-agreeable positions of historical interpretation. This is in part what Eyal Weitzman refers to as the threshold of detectability-unseen marks, scars and trauma become examined in their minutiae to create a relative document and understanding of place. In Vanoverberghe’s case, he is not looking for finite meaning through the act of observing this site, but rather wishes to illustrate a condition of place and its multiple possibilities for historical representations. Without acknowledging a more fluid set of values and meanings, Vanoverberghe would be creating documents in spite of themselves by offering few historical alternatives. In Vanoverberghe’s work, we have the crux of photographic representation in its relative and observable discourse, which is the only discourse suitable for images in which one bears witness, but is which also encourages elasticity to their historical interpretation. ’’

Outtake of Brad Feuerhelm on Conference of the Birds for the publication .tiff ( by FOMU Antwerp)

Selected Exhibitions
.tiff
Yangzhou
Stieglitz19
Unseen Photo Fair
MAP#94

Awards
.tiff
Horlait Dapsens
Shortlist PHmuseum Grant

Press
Volkskrant
Unseen Platform
Photoworks+ UK
Paper Journal
GUP
Kluger Hans
.tiff
De Standaard
The Heavy Collective
Phases

Village View 01, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Wall 01, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 135 cm x 107,8 cm, Ed. 3 + 2AP

Palm 01, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Wall 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Ruin 05, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Shadow Kaluts, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 04, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Mountain 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 04, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Mountain 01, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Two Palms, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 135 cm x 107,8 cm, Ed. 3 + 2AP

Palm 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Kalut, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 05, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Sand Eyes, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 06, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Canyon Rock, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Palm 03, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Ruin Entry, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Palm 04, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Entry, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Palm 05, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Shadow Ruin, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

House of Palms, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 135 cm x 107,8 cm, Ed. 3 + 2AP

Hole 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Ruin 01, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Black Square, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Ruin 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Bam Ruin, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Palm 06, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Ruin 02, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Ruin 03, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Entry, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Ruin 04, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Palm 07, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Babel, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 06, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 50 cm x 40 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Rock Formation, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Village View 07, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Village View 08, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Face of a Palm, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP

Brick Pillar, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 12 cm in 33 x 27 cm frame with brass clips

Palm 08, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 98 cm x 78,4 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP