Last February, we published this article:
This is the most unusual email received this week.
The Musée des Photos Loupées/Ratées, (Museum of Missed/Failed Photos) why not?
Well, actually, I’m creating a collaborative photography museum. Taking the opposite approach by exhibiting only failed/bad pictures that are usually immediately deleted, the goal is to bring together amateur photographers, professionals, and big names in the field.
This announcement was signed by Mattéo Tabutieaux.
Well, he succeeded: all summer long, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Archaeology of Namur – Les Bateliers exhibited these images with this text:
ra[re]té : The genesis of a new movement of failed photos.
The miss
The mess-up.
The failure…
Draws from the depths
of ourselves,
a face
we ignore.
It’s impossible to fake this feeling,
this shameful admission.
The illusion of excellence betrays
a certain fragility.
The lucidity of failure reveals
a part of humanity.
Missing up, messing up, failing,
enriches our singularity.
Failure is the beauty of tomorrow.
Mistakes are often misunderstood. Yet, they are essential in the ideation process to spark inspiration.. They can even become a graphic solution in their own right, defining a style. This is exactly how the lacorbeille project was born: from failed photos from my early days in photography. A more poetic and powerful form emerged from these shots that we would tend to exclude from our final selection. So we created a new photography movement and mounted an exhibition with several artists on this theme: the failed picture.
Project created by Mattéo Tabutieaux
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Les Bateliers – Musée archéologique de Namur
Rue Joseph Saintraint 7
5000 Namur, Belgium
https://www.namur.be/fr/annuaire/administration-communale-de-namur/departement-de-la-culture-et-des-loisirs-dcl/culture/les-bateliers/musee-archeologique-de-namur
