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Darren Campion on Conference of the Birds for Paper Journal
’’Here he tackles it in perhaps a more straightforward way than previously; where his earlier 2099 uses a variety of pictorial techniques, in this case, Vanoverberghe sticks to one fairly plain visual style. But there is also a fundamental consistency at work here too, down to the sense of actual, as well as historical, circularity in how the pictures are related. What stands out is a sense of our relationship to the past as something ambiguous and unresolved, a constellation of possible answers. This is not a photographer taking on a single historical ‘theme’ and building a project around that; Vanoverberghe undertakes an investigation that is at once more literal – he studies the terrain and the photographs are the product of that study – but also refuses the very terms that would make such a study comprehensible. However comprehensive the mapping seems to be, it actually emphasises the limitations of what can be made visible in this way. The pictures link together across the space of the former village, we can see the repeated elements – a clump of palm trees in the foreground of one picture moves to the background of another, for example – everything seems to be accounted for, and yet the more we look the more discontinuities become apparent; there are gaps in the record.’’ by Darren Campion
Full essay here .
Conference of the Birds – Pre-Order is now open.
You can pre-order my upcoming book on the Art Paper Editions website.
The book will be launched in September at Unseen.
More info here.
58 pages
ills b&w
24×29,3 cm
Edition of 500
Linnen hardcover
Otabinding
ISBN 9789493146099
September 2019
Prix Horlait Dapsens
I’m happy to announce I’ve been awarded with the ‘Prix Horlait Dapsens’.
Conference of the Birds at Unseen Photo Fair
I’m very happy to show my latest work Conference of the Birds at the Unseen Photo Fair in September.
More info here.
Solo Exhibition – Stieglitz19 – Antwerp, BE
In October I will present my latest work ‘Conference of the Birds’ at Stieglitz19 gallery in Antwerp. The exact date is to be announced later this year. The work shows an outtake from an analysis of the correlation between time and place and of the historical landscape of Iran. How do places appear and disappear? How do we attach meaning to a certain site and in what way photography can deal with deconstructed icons in comparison to the (a-)historical palm tree sticking its tongue out towards the straight forward photographed Iranian landscape.
Solo Exhibition – CC Hasselt – Hasselt, BE
On December 8, my solo exhibition at the Cultural Centre of Hasselt will open.
The exhibition will be on show until the 2nd of February and will be accompanied by two other solo exhibitions by Thomas Vandenberghe and Daisuke Yokota. More news soon.
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Collaboration – Ann Demeulemeester – Collection Grise FW19
For the FW19 collection I collaborated with Belgian high-end fashion brand Ann Demeulemeester. In total we made 11 pieces together for the ‘collection grise’. The pieces were based on recent books ¡pírate! and 2099 working around myths, icons and nature. The pieces were presented at the Paris Fashion Week in the Ann Demeulemeester showroom.
Publication – 2099 reviewed on American SuburbX
’’We come to believe that we are as a species born from progress. We believe that our genetic features and our cultural dispositions are built like a book in chapters of what has preceded us. The discipline of history is to weigh heavily on our beings. Without the harness of its chagrin, we float hereditarily as non-entity, just as we float into those futures in the same capacity of nothingness, but presumed possibility. As an imagined species, we need and we covet goal posts for which to remind and measure ourselves against the idea of history, all of which is agreed upon by tiny little men bent over candle light writing about riches, and plundering, raping, and otherness that somehow on calf skin vellum-bound books in different languages, has travelled in different iterations to what our little tiny “human” minds perceive as history today. When you think about it, not just examine the identity politics of the writer himself, what we are asking of our shared present and indomitable future is that these minor goal posts that we agree upon actually happened so that we may draw our ill-perceived conclusion as to how we “are” and how we got “here”. We do so through images.’’ by Brad Feuerhelm
Book – 2099 published by APE
My latest book 2099 is published by Belgian publisher Art Paper Editions.
International distribution via IDEA Books .
92 pages
ills colour/b&w
24 cm x 29.5 cm
Paperback with screen printed dust jacket
Otabinding
ISBN 9789490800758
€30,00
Recent Other Publications
PhMuseum
Paper Journal
GUP Magazine
The Heavy Collective
De Standaard
[Upcoming]
Darren Campion on Conference of the Birds for Paper Journal
’’Here he tackles it in perhaps a more straightforward way than previously; where his earlier 2099 uses a variety of pictorial techniques, in this case, Vanoverberghe sticks to one fairly plain visual style. But there is also a fundamental consistency at work here too, down to the sense of actual, as well as historical, circularity in how the pictures are related. What stands out is a sense of our relationship to the past as something ambiguous and unresolved, a constellation of possible answers. This is not a photographer taking on a single historical ‘theme’ and building a project around that; Vanoverberghe undertakes an investigation that is at once more literal – he studies the terrain and the photographs are the product of that study – but also refuses the very terms that would make such a study comprehensible. However comprehensive the mapping seems to be, it actually emphasises the limitations of what can be made visible in this way. The pictures link together across the space of the former village, we can see the repeated elements – a clump of palm trees in the foreground of one picture moves to the background of another, for example – everything seems to be accounted for, and yet the more we look the more discontinuities become apparent; there are gaps in the record.’’ by Darren Campion
Full essay here .
Conference of the Birds – Pre-Order is now open.
You can pre-order my upcoming book on the Art Paper Editions website.
The book will be launched in September at Unseen.
More info here.
58 pages
ills b&w
24×29,3 cm
Edition of 500
Linnen hardcover
Otabinding
ISBN 9789493146099
September 2019
Prix Horlait Dapsens
I’m happy to announce I’ve been awarded with the ‘Prix Horlait Dapsens’.
Conference of the Birds at Unseen Photo Fair
I’m very happy to show my latest work Conference of the Birds at the Unseen Photo Fair in September.
More info here.
Solo Exhibition – Stieglitz19 – Antwerp, BE
In October I will present my latest work ‘Conference of the Birds’ at Stieglitz19 gallery in Antwerp. The exact date is to be announced later this year. The work shows an outtake from an analysis of the correlation between time and place and of the historical landscape of Iran. How do places appear and disappear? How do we attach meaning to a certain site and in what way photography can deal with deconstructed icons in comparison to the (a-)historical palm tree sticking its tongue out towards the straight forward photographed Iranian landscape.
Solo Exhibition – CC Hasselt – Hasselt, BE
On December 8, my solo exhibition at the Cultural Centre of Hasselt will open.
The exhibition will be on show until the 2nd of February and will be accompanied by two other solo exhibitions by Thomas Vandenberghe and Daisuke Yokota. More news soon.
[Current]
Collaboration – Ann Demeulemeester – Collection Grise FW19
For the FW19 collection I collaborated with Belgian high-end fashion brand Ann Demeulemeester. In total we made 11 pieces together for the ‘collection grise’. The pieces were based on recent books ¡pírate! and 2099 working around myths, icons and nature. The pieces were presented at the Paris Fashion Week in the Ann Demeulemeester showroom.
Publication – 2099 reviewed on American SuburbX
’’We come to believe that we are as a species born from progress. We believe that our genetic features and our cultural dispositions are built like a book in chapters of what has preceded us. The discipline of history is to weigh heavily on our beings. Without the harness of its chagrin, we float hereditarily as non-entity, just as we float into those futures in the same capacity of nothingness, but presumed possibility. As an imagined species, we need and we covet goal posts for which to remind and measure ourselves against the idea of history, all of which is agreed upon by tiny little men bent over candle light writing about riches, and plundering, raping, and otherness that somehow on calf skin vellum-bound books in different languages, has travelled in different iterations to what our little tiny “human” minds perceive as history today. When you think about it, not just examine the identity politics of the writer himself, what we are asking of our shared present and indomitable future is that these minor goal posts that we agree upon actually happened so that we may draw our ill-perceived conclusion as to how we “are” and how we got “here”. We do so through images.’’ by Brad Feuerhelm
Book – 2099 published by APE
My latest book 2099 is published by Belgian publisher Art Paper Editions.
International distribution via IDEA Books .
92 pages
ills colour/b&w
24 cm x 29.5 cm
Paperback with screen printed dust jacket
Otabinding
ISBN 9789490800758
€30,00
Recent Other Publications
PhMuseum
Paper Journal
GUP Magazine
The Heavy Collective
De Standaard