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THERE IS HOPE BUT NOT FOR US
Edition of 20 (+2AP) exclusive copies
Unique painted boxes with collages made by V.D.
20 X 30 cm pigment print slipped inside the box with the signed book.
PUBLISHED BY EDITIONS BESSARD
This artist's book size is 17 X 24 cm.
It is coming with a special binding, like a plastic spiral (yellow spiral).
Also there are some transparent colored paper inside the book.
The cover is made with silk-screen printing.
The book is called THERE IS HOPE BUT NOT FOR US (coming from a quote written by Franz Kafka)
This book is a palimpsest, a kind of colorful fiction made of material on which later images have been superimposed on effaced earlier memories.
It is a mix of collages made by the artist, pictures and printings of vintage erotic images on an old cactus book.
Overprints. Drawings.
Helen is a character coming back quite often in the book, in the collages, etc..
She was the artist’s young Cuban wife but she left him two months after the making of the last images of her in Spain, last winter.
This book is a living and vibrant process, the thinking of a period, a search for experimentation, in the chaos of the studio.
Tons of images spread everywhere.
It is funny, colorful and crazy. Maybe nostalgic or exorcist.
Imaginary diaries in the absence of hope but opened to new desires.
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Book and graphic design concept: Joanna Starck
Editions of 500 copies with a 13×18cm C-Print signed by the author
hardcover
spiral binding
17x24 cm (6,69 x 9,45“)
96 pages
full color
HUV Offset Printing
Magno paper 150g paper
Vincent Delbrouck
photographer
Vincent Delbrouck (aka V.D.), born in Brussels in 1975, studied visual communication at Ihecs. For more than twenty-five years, he has been developing a body of work that combines images, collages, texts and fictional diaries His work unfolds like a poetic autobiography, both intimate and collective, exploring the links between memory and imagination.
Delbrouck has explored two major locations in his career: Cuba, where he worked for twenty-five years, and Nepal, where he lived for a year in Kathmandu and in the countryside. In each place, his approach is deeply organic, imbued with his experience in the field. In Cuba, he has built a body of work nourished by encounters and sometimes surreal details, while in Nepal, he captures the energy of the city and the mountains and the inner transformation that it brings about. These immersions shape a hybrid practice that connects the intimate and the collective, the visible and the invisible, and manifests itself in colorist work that oscillates between still life and portraiture.
His projects have been shown in (self-published) books and international exhibitions, notably at FOAM in Amsterdam, the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, FoMu in Antwerp, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, PhotoFest Houston, Contretype, PhotoForum Pasquart, the Mulhouse Biennale (residency), and Huis Marseille. His work has been recognized with the Outset Unseen Award and he was a finalist for the Leica Oscar Barnack Award.
Today, Delbrouck divides his time between Brussels and Andalusia, where he lives with his partner on a finca inhabited by horses, chickens and dogs. This daily life close to nature nourishes his artistic research: capturing the flow of life and inscribing photography in a sensitive and organic movement.
V.D. is represented by the Stieglitz19 gallery (Antwerp).