BOZAR presents Beyond the Document an exhibition of work by contemporary Belgian photographers, on view 29.06 through 25.09.2011.
This exhibition brings together 14 photographers at the instigation of BOZAR and the photography museums of Antwerp and Charleroi. Together, they will examine the fine line that now separates documentary photography and fine art photography. The fact is that, since the 1980s, photography has been permanently elevated to the rank of art, but has never been so used in the vast stock of photo-journalism. This documentary and social veneer is brought out in art photographs which enhance the supporting document. Belgian photography does not escape this ambiguity between documentary framework and metaphoric and conceptual narration. Beyond the Document offers a unique snapshot, combining, in a single medium, objectivity and subjectivity, fiction and reality, report and concept, document and work of art.
Vincen Beeckman – Karin Borghouts – Thomas Chable – Bert Danckaert – Lara Dhondt – Gilbert Fastenaekens – Nick Hannes – Philippe Herbet – Jan Kempenaers – Chantal Maes – Christine Felten-Véronique Massinger – Arno Roncada – Herman van den Boom
Curators: Xavier Canonne (Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi); Pool Andries (FotoMuseum Antwerpen); Frank Vanhaecke (BOZAR EXPO)
Image: Jan Kempenaers The Bunker #1, 2010 Courtesy of the artist
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