EXHIBITION

Without Camera

Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Brussels, 05/20/2017 - 07/08/2017

Sint-Jorisstraat 109

ABOUT

Hopstreet Gallery is proud to present a group exhibition with works who revolve around found images. By manipulting, cutting away, carving out or re-printing they create works with a new narration.

Jonathan Callan’s single book pages, collages really, with shapes removed and other images placed into the resulting holes came from looking back at the pieces he made many years ago where different faces were looking out of the shape created by other heads. He became interested in imagining sculptures or installations in different landscapes/ interiors. 

Julie Cockburn’s work revolves around found images; her source materials are familiar and often nostalgic. By manipulating a found photograph, it is re-appropriated and given a new significance. The images Cockburn uses are lost from their original meaning rendering them impotent and malleable. She contradicts the generic and mass produced with a handmade craft and a painstaking attention to detail, not for its own sake, particularly, but to make these physically and intellectually worn objects precious again and weighted with a different value. 

Katrien De Blauwer calls herself a "photographer without a camera". She collects and recycles pictures and photos from old magazines and papers. Her work is, at the same time, intimate, directly corresponding with our unconscious, and anonymous thanks to the use of found images and body parts that have been cut away. This way, her personal history becomes the history of everyone. 

Karin Fisslthaler main topic of her work is the human body, its nonverbal communication system, representation and identity construction. She is researching these aspects mostly in found images and carving out the process of collective and individual reflections of human behaviour in the media. She works with different kind of materials like film and video, music or found pictures. By means of collecting, cutting and reassembling she tries to open already defined views and creating voids with the objective of ambiguity of interpretation. 

Noé Sendas started a body of works the “Peeps”, which are based on vintage erotic postcard size images, intervened with direct, mostly single, geometrical shapes and re-printed in the same scale. The “Crystal Girl” and “Peep series result in black and white prints on rugged paper, facsimileing original photographs from the last century.


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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Noe Sendas

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