Elina Brotherus’s films and photographs are essentially landscapes and self-portraits. Her subjects bear witness to purely formal research which make references to historical art compositions, while, at the same time, questioning human existence.
For, deep down, Elina Brotherus has always been telling us the story of her life, with its highs and lows, its wonders and its disappointments. In every case, what amazes and moves us is her simple presence, her obvious way of casting a benevolent and luminous eye on things.
The exhibition Carpe Fucking Diem again takes up the theme of the human figure in nature, but this time, the sentiment that emerges is ambivalent. The title seems contradictory: the allusion to Epicurean philosophy, that encourages us to savour the present as part of the idea that the future is uncertain and that all is destined to disappear, appears frustrating.
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Cité Fontainas 4A, 1060 Bruxelles, Belgium
November 15, 2017 to January 14, 2018
