In citizens’ hands
Images of people and urban transition spaces. Imaginaries of altering ways of living. Hands-on and pragmatically constructed.
As an embedded witness and part of an ever-shifting community, Toha De Brant brings out representations of the multi-faced temporary use scene in Brussels and its connections beyond.
Intimate and exposing, this series of photos highlight the visual manifestation of an ever-moving urban scenery that might disappear and last. Messy architectures, turbulent and caring characters and subtly outstanding details reveal an inadmissible overlap between people and their places.
The results are -like its subject- images that have been worked by hand and manifested through a professional devotion. Carefully selected shots that confuse in their layerdness of meaning and understanding, an overlap between people and places we tend to separate.
This series reveals the often-left unseen core of committed impermanent existences in a society that plans for an imagined permanency.
Hanne Van Reusel
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As an embedded witness and part of an ever-shifting community, Toha De Brant brings out representations of the multi-faced temporary use scene in Brussels and its connections beyond.
Intimate and exposing, this series of photos highlight the visual manifestation of an ever-moving urban scenery that might disappear and last. Messy architectures, turbulent and caring characters and subtly outstanding details reveal an inadmissible overlap between people and their places.
The results are -like its subject- images that have been worked by hand and manifested through a professional devotion. Carefully selected shots that confuse in their layerdness of meaning and understanding, an overlap between people and places we tend to separate.
This series reveals the often-left unseen core of committed impermanent existences in a society that plans for an imagined permanency.
Hanne Van Reusel
Installation View
Black and white 35mm analogue negatives digitally printed on double-sided yellow paper 0.610x45m 120gr
Black and white 35mm analogue negatives digitally printed on double-sided yellow paper 0.610x45m 120gr
