Living in the company of images. Each week during the closing of the BAL I will show you one or more works that inhabit the walls of artists, gallery owners, collectors with whom LE BAL collaborates accompanied by a quote.
A few days before confinement, in his studio in Brooklyn, Gilles Peress was working on his exhibition Whatever You Say, Say Nothing which will open at BAL this fall (if Corona virus permits!) And then at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2022.
Gilles Peress arrived in Belfast on the night of July 11, 1970 to photograph the Protestant marches. Witness of the internment in 1971 and then in 1972 of Bloody Sunday, he returned regularly to Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s, trying to question “the wild nature of photography” (Roland Barthes). It will thus produce one of the densest and most extreme visual anthropology experiences of the last century.
Diane Dufour, co-director of LE BAL
“My intention was to describe a whole in all of its simultaneous aspects. Not only what was happening on both sides of the border between Nationalists and Loyalists, but also at each end of a class society fractured between the richest and the poorest, and to represent life in all its incarnations . I wanted to describe the days when important events occur, the historic moments but also the days when nothing happens, the days of infinite boredom, the days that never end. I wanted to describe the texture and structure of life in all its profusion of details. […] If I could have represented the air of time and the hours that go by, I would have done it. In fact, I think I tried. ”
Gilles Peress
This contribution comes from BAL FROM HOME
Because LE BAL is a community of individuals around an idea, the representation of the society of men and its challenges, we thought LE BAL FROM HOME as a ticket that would be sent to you every week. Not a consolation ticket but rather a sweet, friendly ticket, coming from each of us, like so many shards of BAL that slip into the interstice of time. Dave Heath liked to use the phrase “inner landscapes” to describe his portraits of anonymous people absorbed in themselves. Hopefully these pieces of BAL will find their way into your inner landscape.
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