For almost twenty years the Dutch artists Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye have been exploring issues as diverse as anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and culture as a means of adaptation and re-enactment.

The publication EVIDENCE is published on the occasion of their first major solo exhibition EVIDENCE in Belgium, which was from 13 May to 16 July 2017 in Argos, Brussels. The method of editing used in their collective film work has been applied in this...

Het Public Land Survey System, ofwel het Jefferson Grid, is het systeem waarmee landmeters eind achttiende eeuw het midden en Westen van de Verenigde Staten in keurige vierkanten verdeelden van exact één bij één mijl. Maar omdat de aarde rond is, liepen de lijnen naar het noorden taps toe. Daarom moest het raster gecorrigeerd worden: grid corrections brachten om de 20 mijl theorie en praktijk weer bij elkaar.

Toen vlieger- en luchtfotograaf Gerco de Ruijter tijdens een residentie in Wichi...

The Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining region, bordering on Belgium, is part of northern Europe’s historical centre of heavy industry, which extends as far as the Ruhr area in Germany. With the end of coal mining in the 1980s, the Lille region transitioned to new economic activities, particularly within the cultural and creative industries, taking advantage of its strategic location midway between Paris, London and Brussels. After de-industrialisation and the 1984 opening of the Lewarde Mining Museu...

In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography an...

Throughout the apartheid era South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate white rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photograph...

AMSTERDAM 744 - FOTOCOLLAGES VAN JOS HOUWELING

Amsterdam bestaat 744 jaar en dat vieren wij met deze ontspannen kijk op de stad. Dit boek is een speels vervolg op het 700 CENTENBOEK, dat Jos Houweling in 1975 maakte ter gelegenheid van het 700-jarig bestaan van Nederlands hoofdstad. Voor het 700 Centenboek keek Jos Houweling naar het straatmeubilair, voor AMSTERDAM 744 verplaatste hij zich in de hoofden van de toeristen. Wat hopen zij te zien? Een reis van hoogtepunt naar hoogtepunt, met miss...

Het fotoboek HOLLEKEN bevat 28 nieuwe zwart-witfotowerken van MARTIJN DOOLAARD [1966].

LAURENT DE MAERTELAER schreef de inleiding [NL + ENG].

Gestaag werkt fotograaf MARTIJN DOOLAARD [NL] verder aan een consistent oeuvre van zwart-witwerken, voornamelijk portretten. Aan de hand van de zeven voorgaande, door Voetnoot uitgegeven boeken is een duidelijke ontwikkeling waar te nemen in het werk van deze gedreven kunstenaar die consequent zijn eigen weg zoekt/volgt en daarbij steeds vrijer wordt i...

Outcome of the multifaceted project In and Out of Brussels - book & DVD

In and Out of Brussels examines four Brussels-based artistic projects that converge in critically investigating the figuration of Africa in the image economy of the West: Herman Asselberghs's Speech Act (2011), Sven Augustijnen's Spectres (2011), Renzo Martens's Episode III - Enjoy Poverty (2008) and Els Opsomer's Building Stories: That Distant Piece of Mine (2012).

While each is a singular film, together they reveal Afr...

This continuation of the well-established and popular series of found photography books, provides another collection of intriguing images. This time its subject is one of the earliest successful photographic blogs, a site documenting the story of Oolong, a Japanese rabbit whose unusually flat head made it ideal for balancing objects. Starting in 1999, hundreds of images were posted by Oolong’s owner, Akutagawa Hironori, each showing this otherwise ordinary creature with an unusual item place...