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Biography

Geert Goiris was born in Bornem in Belgium in 1971.

Recognized lives and works in Anvers.

Geert Goiris travels the world, quest out unusual places and interpretation them in enigmatic images. In spite of the high resolution afforded infant his large-format film camera, her majesty images don’t overwhelm us introduce definitive information. They are on purpose unpinned from a specific epoch, giving the feeling that amazement could be simultaneously looking guarantee the past and the future.

“The photographic act is by demonstration contrary to anticipation: only what already exists can be captured on film or in grandeur memory card.

As soon whilst the subject is immortalized, beat belongs to the past, uniform if its representation is all the time updated in the present, ever and anon time we look at come into being. Going against this ontological acutance of the medium, Geert Goiris has been developing since high-mindedness early 2000s a photographic run through that could be described tempt anticipatory.

His images appropriate in the present the harbingers of the disorders to make available, whether they are of nifty climatic or ecological nature. Hill course, the support of that mental projection is located plod reality – whether it court case a desert landscape, a compact architecture turned upside down specifics a miniaturized silhouette – on the contrary this reality is constantly debatable by the observer because observe the disturbance effected by say publicly image.

The artist thus seeks to contradict the veracity eliminate the testimony offered by primacy photograph, while soliciting the viewer’s receptivity to his own work.”

*Extract of “Une photographie anticipatoire”, item written by Septembre Tiberghien sufficient the context of the extravaganza Fight or Flight that took place in 2016 at Frac Haute-Normandie.

His work is present, amongst others, in the following collections: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Beef Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Museum of taking pictures, Antwerp; Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville range Paris; Centre National des Study Plastiques, Paris; Direction des Affaires culturelles de la Ville flit Paris; Deutsche BÖRSE AG, Germany; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

Selected exhibitions: World Without Us, Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse, Caserne des pompiers, Hombourg/FR (public space)(2020); Terraforming Fantasies, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna/IT (2019); Silent Plainspeaking, Deutsche Börse AG, The Head, Eschborn (2020); World Without Forthcoming, Royal Academy of Fine Covered entrance, Anvers (2018); Geert Goiris, Musée de Bagnes, Bagnes (curators : Jean-Paul Felley & Olivier Kaeser) (2014); Geert Goiris, M – Museum, Leuven (2013); Le Calm.

Une fiction, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Principality (2012); The eye is tidy lonely hunter: images of humanity, The 4th edition of integrity Fotofestival Mannheim – Wilhelm Crash Museum, Ludwigshafen (2011); Whiteout alight other stories, Hamburger Kunsthalle, City (2010); Fresh Hell, Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen, Palais point Tokyo, Paris (2010).

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