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CATALOGUE
Photographs and collages: Vincent Delbrouck
Editing and Design: V.D. and Philippe Koeune
free softcover with flaps
red linen binding tape
21 x 29,7 cm (8,27 x 11,69“)
248 pages / 116 illustrations randomly sequenced
full color
offset printing on glossy 135g paper
+ 1 free B/W photocopy on pink paper
Edition of 480 unique copies + 30 collector's copies (special edition).
With support of Mulhouse Art Contemporain.
"This random book started with an artist residency in Mulhouse (October 2015) followed by a solo show as part of Mulhouse Biennial of Photography 2016 (France).
It is now the intuitive and flooded river of a working process, with images from a variety of sources (and periods) : c-prints, collages, installations views from exhibitions(BPM, FOAM,...), photocopies, pages from Revisited Cuban book,...
This book is printed on glossy magazine paper (swiss binding), resulting in a publication that is not just documenting the constellations of a working process but becomes part of it, as an experimental "anti-catalogue" reflecting the energy of antipoetry.
Each copy is unique, made of randomly stacked sheets printed only on the recto and numbered with Tarot, all coming with a different and extra overs sheet (overprint) hidden somewhere in the book.
An interview by Zippora Elders at FOAM + a text written by Anne Immelé (curator and director of the Mulhouse Biennial) are also included in the book."
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).