WILDPLAKKEN

FORUM+ is het peer-reviewed tijdschrift voor onderzoek en kunsten in de Lage Landen.
Dit essay bevat een analyse van het werk van een van de meest spraakmakende fotokunstenaars van de afgelopen decennia, en een reflectie op de tentoonstelling Depth on the Surface in FOMU (fotomuseum Antwerpen). Depth on the Surface was een van de eerste grote retrospectieve tentoonstellingen van de Canadese fotokunstenaar Lynne Cohen na haar overlijden in 2014. De tentoonstelling was het resultaat van een langdurig onderzoek naar haar oeuvre door de kunstenaars Bert Danckaert en Karin Hanssen, uitgevoerd voor de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen.

FORUM+ is the peer-reviewed journal for research and the arts in the Low Countries.
This essay (in Dutch) analyses the work of one of the most controversial photographic artists of the last decades, and reflects on Depth on the Surface, an exhibition at FOMU (the Antwerp museum of photography). Depth on the Surface was one of the first major retrospectives of Lynne Cohen, after the Canadian photographer passed away in 2014. The exhibition was the result of an extensive study of her oeuvre undertaken by the artists Bert Danckaert and Karin Hanssen for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

https://www.forum-online.be/nummers/lente-2021/laboratory-de-nalatenschap-van-lynne-cohen

https://matca.vn/en/trien-lam-nhung-gi-gia-tri/
In times of COVID-19, existential questions are posed to young people who are now facing an uncertain future. Each week, the participants dealt with an assigned “value”, which they first discussed in pair, then provided each other with inspiration, and finally expressed their personal opinion of the value in question in one single photograph. The resulting images and fragments of the written communication between the participants were published online, where perspectives were shared and friendships developed.

Bert Danckaert, associate professor of photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp who spearheaded the project, shares his thoughts after three intensive months: “What struck me most was the immediate openness and trust that the participants had in each other. The project seemed to generate an injection of hope facing another continent, a virtual bridge between two cultures. Looking back, I think the most important and eleventh value is that of trust.”

At a time when social contact is severely limited, Things That Count sends a hopeful signal by creating an international network among upcoming artists and sober reflections on what is considered valuable today.

Participating photographers include: Hoàng Minh Trang, Ana Lucía Fernández, Catherine Smet, Nguyễn Vân Nhi, Phạm Hà Huy Anh, Daria Oprean, Eduard Michalko, Nguyễn Minh Hoàng, Kiên Hoàng, Moritz Broszat, Trần Vĩnh Đạt, Robert Sasarman, Cao Nguyễn Huy Hoàng, Sarah Kirchner, Oxiea Villamonte, and Nguyễn Thanh Huế.

The project was initiated by Bert Danckaert, associate professor of photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and exhibited at Matca Space for Photography with the support of the Embassy of Belgium in Vietnam.
https://matca.vn/en/trien-lam-nhung-gi-gia-tri/

Things That Count Location: Matca Space for Photography, 48 Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Date: 8:00 – 20:00, 25/06 – 07/07/2021

Things That Count is an online photography collaboration between young photographers from Europe and Asia. Students from the Photography dpt. of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp-Belgium correspond online via text and images with a group of young Vietnamese photographers (selected by Matca, an independent platform for photography in Vietnam).
The photographers are divided into pairs – one European, one Vietnamese – and communicate with one another about important current issues. In these unsettled times caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we are confronted with existential questions about how we are living and what values are important to young people as they look to an uncertain future.
Each week the participants deal with a different assigned ‘value’, which they first discuss in their pairs, providing suggestions and inspiration for each other, before producing one photograph that expresses each individual’s personal opinion of the value in question. Fragments of the written communication between the participants and the final resulting photographs are published on a dedicated website each week for a period of 10 weeks between march and may 2021.
The project aims to be a stimulating and creative endeavour for the photographers, one that builds a bridge between two very different cultures. At a time when social contact is severely limited by the pandemic, we want to send a hopeful signal by creating an international network between upcoming artists and reflect on the things that count.
www.the-institute-of-doubt.org/thingsthatcount