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LYNNE COHEN / BERT DANCKAERT
SIDE EFFECTS brings together the work of two photographers.
Lynne Cohen (CA) and Bert Danckaert (BE) capture the residues of human activity
without showing people themselves. The registered constructions do have
in Cohen's case a more 'found-object' level, whereas Danckaert combines
landscape with still life. In both cases a sharp and humoristic ambulatory
with the artificial and banal is omnipresent. While Cohen sets limits to
photographing interiors, Danckaert focuses mainly on the open space of new
suburbs. Both of them generate images with a strong claustrophobic character.
The apparent settings they capture are so enclosed within the framework
of the picture that it seems as if there's neither entrance nor exit.
Bert Danckaert shows a selection from Make Sense!, the vast photographic
work he has been working on since 1999. His well-balanced compositions combined
with the arid banality of the subjects, render his pictures an almost absurd
existential meaning.
Lynne Cohen presents the recently published Camouflage in Netwerk for the
first time. It is a survey of and retrospection on Cohen's career, which
goes back to the early seventies. In Camouflage she brings together works
that have never been exhibited nor published before, either because of purely
formal deviations, or because some of the photographs simply needed more
time; these then became the preambles of later work.
Both photographers assume a seemingly neutral registration practice but
neither of them work in a documentary style. The metaphorical and symbolic
character of their photographs has a specific conceptual, social and political
undertone.
Websites
www.lynne-cohen.com
www.bert-danckaert.be
Side effects - Lynne
Cohen / Bert Danckaert
dubbel tentoonstelling
07/01/06 > 11/02/06