Hangar se profile de plus en plus en le cœur battant pour la photographie à Bruxelles. Ils organisent annuellement le Photo Brussels Festival qui en est à sa sixième édition et couvre 40 galeries de la capitale et plusieurs événements. Dans l’espace Hangar place du Châtelain il y a une très belle expo sur le thème des arbres : In the Shadow of Trees. Pas de très grands photographes de renom, mais une palette fascinante d’approches avec beaucoup de sensibilité de ces ‘’êtres qui comptent parfois plusieurs millénaires et ont impassiblement vu l’histoire humaine se dérouler à leurs pied. La vingtaine de photographes dont le Belge Bruno Roels sont originaires de 12 pays différents et il est intéressant de comparer leurs approches à ce thème universel et l’incroyable énergie qui en découle.
Hangar profileert zich steeds meer als het kloppende hart van de fotografie in Brussel. Ze organiseren jaarlijks het Photo Brussels Festival, dat aan zijn zesde editie toe is en 40 galerijen in de hoofdstad en verschillende evenementen omvat. In de ruimte Hangar zelf op de Kasteleinplein is er een heel mooie tentoonstelling rond het thema ‘bomen’: In the Shadow of Trees. Geen resem beroemde fotografen, maar een fascinerend palet van benaderingen met een grote gevoeligheid voor deze “wezens’ die soms meerdere millennia op de teller hebben en onbewogen de menselijke geschiedenis aan hun voeten hebben kunnen aanschouwen. De twintig fotografen – onder wie de Belg Bruno Roels – komen uit 12 verschillende landen komt en het is interessant om hun benadering van dit universele thema en de ongelooflijke energie die eruit voortkomt te vergelijken.
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Hangar proposes, in the context of PhotoBrussels Festival 06, a large exhibition: In the Shadow of Trees. The exhibition brings together twenty photographic projects (including the three winners of the Prize*).
Standing alone in the landscape, or surrounded by or competing with its peers in the forest, forming a distant or close part of human activities, the tree is a highly pertinent subject in contemporary photography. The variations of forms and light that the tree expresses so well, in essence, the raw materials of photography, did not escape the pioneers of this medium in the 19th century either. Throughout the history of art, the tree has been used as an explicit symbol of life, growth, seasonal death, and resilience.
While the tree, the world’s largest living organism, sometimes surviving for thousands of years, is often the emblem of a particular region or culture, it is also a state of mind. The images revealed by the lens make it possible to gain an idea of the artist’s character and emotions. It is precisely that extraordinary diversity that the Hangar aims to reflect through In the Shadow of Trees, an exhibition that brings together twenty or so photographic projects. The show also aims to shine a light on the crucial place that trees occupy in life and the influence they have on the survival of humankind. Indeed, in 2022 we can no longer ignore the ecological and environmental underlying all artistic work.
On the one hand, In the Shadow of Trees invites us to capture the flow of energy that emanates from these artistic projects and the way in which they affect our mood, attitude, and desires. While on the other, the exhibition calls on us to become aware that every individual on this planet Earth, lives in some way in the shadow of trees…
To this Hangar curation are added the three winners of the call for projects, the Prize*.
Selected artists
- Terje Abusdal (NO)
- Pablo Albarenga (UY)
- Mustapha Azeroual (FR/MA)
- Olaf Otto Becker (DE)
- Jelle Brandt Corstius & Jeroen Toirkens (NL)
- Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács (NL)
- Edward Burtynsky (CA)
- Mitch Epstein (US)
- Arguiñe Escandón (ES) & Yann Gross (CH)
- Eric Guglielmi (FR)
- Nicolai Howalt (DK)
- KIM Jungman (KR)
- Jaakko Kahilaniemi (FI)
- Pascal Maitre (FR)
- Beth Moon (US)
- Enrique Ramirez (CL)
- Bruno V. Roels (BE)
*Prize laureates
- Benjamin Deroche (FR)
- Yutao Gao (CN)
- Kíra Krász (HU)
Hangar – Photo Art Center
Place du Châtelain 18 Kasteleinplein
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tuesday 12:00 — 18:00
Wednesday 12:00 — 18:00
Thursday 12:00 — 18:00
Friday 12:00 — 18:00
Saturday 12:00 — 18:00
Standard – € 7
