“Is the city still a dream?” - PBF03
16 November - 20 December 2018
The 3rd edition of PhotoBrussels Festival broached the theme of the city from the spectrum of dreams and the imagination. Ten photographers have taken up the challenge. The selection of this 3rd edition was as diverse as in previous years, teeming with projects by photographers from various countries. Established artists exhibited side by side with young, emerging talents. Traditional photography mixed with photomontage and video: the real and the unreal met….
Three projects took a specific look at Brussels. In residence during the summer of 2018, the artists Philippe Calandre and Jean-François Rauzier unveiled their images and lost Brussels denizens in new utopias. The Brussels-based collective Raw7 scrutinized the city to bring out unexpected aspects. For his part, the Belgian artist Paul D’Haese created an imaginary city, Belgopolis, from photographs taken in each of the 133 cities of Belgium. Young emerging talents such as Benjamin Baltus, Leon Billerbeck, Pieter Dumoulin, Laurent Kronental, and Tamara Stoffers told us extraordinary stories about urban planning and civic-mindedness, ranging between dreams and disenchantment. There was a great geographic distance with the original visions of New York (Natan Dvir) and Rio de Janeiro (Claudia Jaguaribe). On the Asian side, PhotoBrussels Festival plays host to the Artificial Wonderlands of the Chinese artist Yang Yongliang and the “cut” buildings of the Korean artist Park Seunghoon.
The artists of the “City” exhibition:
Benjamin Baltus (BE) - Leon Billerbeck (DE) - Philippe Calandre (FR) - Paul D'Haese (BE) - Pieter Dumoulin (BE) - Natan Dvir (IL) - Ximena Echague (Raw7) (AR) - Jorge Hortua (Raw7) (CO) - Claudia Jaguaribe (BR) - Laurent Kronental (FR) - Merlin Meuris (Raw7) (BE) - Vincent Peal (Raw7) (BE) - Jean-François Rauzier (FR) - Kevin Scarlett (Raw7) (UK) - Seung Hoon Park (KR) - Tamara Stoffers (NL) - Yang Yongliang (CN)
© Laurent Kronental
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