After François Cheval in 2013, for this year’s edition, it is Xavier Canonne, Diretor of the Museum of Photography in Charleroi (Belgium) who selected four young Belgian artists for his carte blanche.
Aurore Dal Mas, Figures
« The Figures » of Aurore Dal Mas turn their back to us as if the body was hidden from the viewer while submitting itself to them. The pictorial dimension is perceived in a recurrent way in these light effects with chiaroscuro intonations. The body, here revealed, is that of the artist but could be the one of anonymous people because the subject is not self-portrait but the otherness. – Gaëlle Doret
Pierre Liebaert, Macquenoise
Macquenoise is the bittersweet portrait of a mother and son who live a secluded life with only animals for company, at the mercy of the seasons. From this oedipal relationship wells up a violence suffocated by a state of immobility. Sometimes, a look seems to be a cry for help, a warning that we heed while remaining mute, powerless. Macquenoise might well be the name of a dance of death. The memory of an original sacrifice from the very edge of a horizon that sighs, between light and darkness. But it is a village on the fringes of Belgium, on the French border. – Septembre Tiberghien
Jean-François Spricigo, ROMANZA
He hunts for the horizon as much as he can, loves nature and animals unconditionally and he finally starts to accept serenely the changeability of the species to which he belongs. (…) The pictures of Jean-François Spricigo call each other, create each other in a potentially infinite network. A network that covers his world as if the map came on top of the territory, as if the image exactly transposed the dream.- Anne Biroleau
Zoé van der Haegen, Battlefield
Battlefield explores an inhabited area off the side of the highway, found on the outskirts of Brussels. The high density of urban networks gradually disintegrate, creating a sense of reality that seems to be slipping out of our hands.
http://www.auroredalmas.com/http://www.pierreliebaert.comhttp://www.joug.orghttp://www.zoevdh.com
