TENTOONSTELLING 7 > 29 januari 2012
Temps brassé - Bewogen tijden | ALAIN JANSSENS
Vernissage zondag 8 januari | 16:00 | intro EMMANUEL D’ AUTREPPE
The photographer isolates the fragment which takes on a general value, nameless and lacking singularity, without losing intimacy in favor of impersonality. A pool, a reflection, a branch etc., become moments of intense emotions that leave the imagination the task to put together the whole, to make the most of the freedom left by the image. Alain Janssens refuses deceptive obviousness, denouncing its ready falsehood in order to introduce doubt. “I reject certainties,” he says. “I prefer the fragility of doubt, mystery’s unsettling anxiety.”
Pierre-Ollivier Rollin, author, museum director
His photography is neither immediate nor obvious. It requires near-contemplative attention and receptiveness. Only then is it revealed to us gradually, like a mysterious poem, a disturbing and fascinating appearance. Alain Janssens shows this brilliantly through these images full of mystery, poetry, simplicity, sensuality, ever oscillating between the tiny and the vast, between everything and nothing, between partial and complete.
Jean-Marie Wynants, journalist and critic
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4 > 26 februari 2012 | Lotus | Max Pinckers & Quinten De Bruyn
