Terra Nullius#29, 2024 © Matthieu Litt_Courtesy Hangar Gallery
Apparitions
Group show presented by Hangar Gallery
15 November — 21 December 2024
After participating in the Paris Photo and Approche fairs, Hangar Gallery opens its first group show in Brussels.
These 9 photographers explore the boundaries of the medium and the materiality of the print, blurring the line of the viewer interpretation. Apparitions, disappearances... what do these images reveal about our contemporary world and our relationship with the image?
This exhibition is held on the second floor space in parallel with ATELIER - Stephan Vanfleteren
(FR, 1982), lives and works in Burgundy (FR).
As a photographer and visual artist, Sylvie Bonnot explores new modes of image transfiguration through a documentary approach. Winner of the ECPAD X ADAGP photographic residency at Fort d’Ivry in 2024 and the Grande Commande Photo Radioscopie, led by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in 2022-2023, Sylvie Bonnot has exhibited extensively (APPROCHE, Musée des Archives Nationales...) and her works are featured in various public collections (Bibliothèque nationale de France, CNES at the Abattoirs Museum, FRAC in Toulouse...).
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Her work has also been the subject of monographic publications, including L’Arbre-marchine published by Éditions Loco (2024).
(BE,1985), lives and works in Brussels (BE).
Antoine De Winter studied medicine and anthropology at the University of Louvain. In 2018, upon completing his doctoral thesis, he resumed his studies at the Agnès Varda School of Photography (Brussels). Since then, he has participated in numerous exhibitions, showcasing his work at venues such as Galerie 41 (Antwerp), the Centre Wallon d’art contemporain, and the Dvir Gallery (Brussels).
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He was also part of the Off program at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles in 2018 and has held exhibitions in Belgium and France. Antoine De Winter has received numerous awards, including the Support for Contemporary Artistic Creation from the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles in 2021.
(FR, 1966), lives and works in Paris (FR).
Born in 1966 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. Lives and works in Paris. Véronique Ellena is a visual artist who studied photography at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. She has received several public commissions (CNAP in Paris, André Malraux Museum in Le Havre). Her work is part of many public and private collections such as Centre Georges Pompidou, FNAC, FRAC Île-de-France, Florence & Damien Bachelot collection.
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She exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2009 where she was presented by Christian Lacroix as part of the Discovery Award. In 2018 she is invited by the Réattu Museum in Arles for a retrospective of her work. And in 2019, some of her works are selected for the exhibition Elles question de genre at the Paul Dini Museum (Villefranche sur Saône). In November 2019, her work will be part of the collections of the new Museum of Cultures and Landscape in Hyères.She obtained prestigious residences (Villa Medicis, Foundation of Treilles) as well as the “Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the intelligence of the hand” for the Millenium Stained Glass of Strasbourg Cathedral.
(FR/IS, 1977), lives and works in Sienne (IT).
Lior Gal is a Franco-Israeli artist who moved to Paris at the age of 21, where he studied photography at the MJM school. He collaborated with JSVCprojects (Paris) and was represented by the Lebenson gallery. Lior Gal’s practice includes photography and the installation of what can be called photographic objects within architectural space, as well as specific interventions outdoors.
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He has developed a personal way of traveling. He has exhibited in several countries around the world (Israel, United States, Italy, Ukraine, Germany...). Over the past few years, he has made several trips to India, including a residency at Emami Art Calcutta in 2023, and his current work is a direct extension of this experience. He also has ongoing projects with the Kira Foundation. A Princess of Prussia Foundation.
(BR,1955), lives and works in São Paulo (BR).
Claudia Jaguaribe holds degrees in art history from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and in photography from Boston University (USA). She has been working internationally since 2002, with numerous exhibitions around the world. Her most recent exhibition, Naturas, was held at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro in 2023. Her works and books can be found in several museums and collections in Brazil and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Brumadinho; the Moreira Salles Institute in Rio de Janeiro; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Maison Européenne de la Photographie; the Instituto Italo-Latino Americano in Rome; the Pinacoteca de São Paulo; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; and MOMA.
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Claudia Jaguaribe co-founded the Madalena publishing house, which specialises in photography, and has published some twenty monographs, including Cidades, Entrevistas and Beijing Overshoot. Her book Aeroporto, published by Aperture, was included in the Latin American Photobook (2011). She has also received numerous awards, including: Marc Ferrez photography (2010), The SyngentaPhotography (2017), Kassel Photobook Award (2015). Claudia Jaguaribe was selected for the book Collage - Women of the Prix Pictet since 2008, published in 2022.
(HU, 1995), lives and works in Budapest (HU).
Kíra Krász is studying for a Masters Degree in Fine Art at the Hungarian University of Fine Art (Budapest). She graduated in BA Photography from the University of Brighton in 2019 and winning the Photoworks award for her final project, Thought after Taught. Since then, her works have been exhibited in various countries across Europe.
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Her work was presented at Hangar for the exhibition The World Within in 2021 and In the Shadow of Trees in 2022. In this latest exhibition, her series The Living Home won the Leica Coup de Coeur prize. In 2021, she received a scholarship for her ongoing project, From Marble to Stone. Kíra Krász is currently studying for a master’s degree at the University of Fine Arts in Hungary (Budapest).
(BE, 1983), lives and works in Liège (BE).
Since his early days in photography, Matthieu Litt has never ceased to question our relationship with the world. His first series explored the interactions between humans and the landscape. Over time, his research opened up more widely to the spectrum of the living. Photography then became the author's means of observing the complex weave of links that weave themselves between beings. Convinced of the reconstructive power of photography, he uses it to try to restore the fractured link between humans and their environment.
In taking this path, Matthieu Litt gradually frees himself from the documentary dimension of his medium, in favour of a resolutely poetic perspective.
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It is through his eminently plastic treatments that his work reflects the fragility of our ecosystems.
In Terra Nullius, where the artist captures a polar landscape in full metamorphosis, the approach is more suggestive than frontal. It is the unreal rendering of colours, the overexposure, the changes in scale and the superimposition of views that, by gradually dissolving the images into abstraction, evoke the decay of suffering glaciers. The sublime spectacle of the disaster to come is deliberately indeterminate, as Matthieu Litt consciously blurs the spatial and temporal contours of his subjects. Even when the issue is more clearly situated, as in the Oasis series, which takes root in the Ry-Ponet park in the Liège region, the photographer blurs the lines. In essence, Oasis seeks to sketch out a space of utopian and experimental projections that go far beyond a geographical reality.
More interested in recreating an aesthetic experience than in capturing a subject, the photographer inscribes the different territories he explores in a sensitive and poetic cartography. In so doing, he strives day after day to renew our sense of belonging to the world
(BE, 1995), lives and works in Brussels (BE).
Alice Pallot lives and works between Paris and Brussels (FR/BE). She studied photography at L'ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels, BE), from which she graduated with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree with honours in June 2018. In the same year, she took part in an exchange at ECAL (Lausanne, CH) and won the Roger De Conynck prize.Since then, she has exhibited in European institutions and galleries. In 2022, she took part in the group exhibition .tiff at FOMU (Anvers, BE), as a prizewinner. In 2023, she will represent emerging European photography within the FUTURES network, and present her work in a travelling group exhibition (Camera Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (Turin), Copenhagen Photo Festival (Copenhagen), Fotofestiwal (Lodz)). Alice Pallot published the books Land (2016), Himero (2020) Suillus (2021, reed. 2022), Algues maudites a sea of tears (Area books, 2023) and Red Bloom (The Eyes, 2024).
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She also co-founded the De Anima collective. In 2022, Alice Pallot was selected to take part in the Résidence 1+2 (Toulouse, FR), a festival of creative residencies designed to promote dialogue between photography and science. It was within this framework that she developed the series Algues Maudites, a sea of tears, in collaboration with the CNRS Occitanie Ouest. During 2023, she will be showing this project at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Toulouse, the Hangar (Brussels), the Boutographies festival (Montpellier), the NTUA in Taiwan, the Rencontres d'Arles during La Nuit de l'Année and La Croisière, the MAC in Créteil as part of the Photo Climat Biennial, the Fotohouse ParisBerlin in Berlin, and the Université de Rennes2 as part of the Glaz festival.
Alice Pallot is the winner of the Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale, Villa Perochon, 2023/2024, to carry out the second phase of research and production for the project Algues maudites, a sea of tears, which will be a living installation on the subject of scientific accidents.
In January 2024, Alice Pallot is a finalist for the BMW ART MAKERS Prize and the Fondation des Treilles Residence for Photography.
(BE, 1966), lives and works in Brussels (BE).
Luc Praet started in photography at the age of 16 as an assistant and opened his studio in 1988, specializing in fashion photography. He collaborates with numerous renowned brands and publishes his work in several fashion magazines. In 2002, he shot the global campaign for Lancôme’s Miracle perfume with actress Uma Thurman in Los Angeles, for the Air Paris agency. Since 2010, he has primarily focused on his artistic projects such as the Landslag Project and his series ALTERED, which he began in 2016.
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His works have been exhibited at ELEVENSTEENS (Brussels) in 2020 and 2023, notably during the 7th edition of PhotoBrussels festival and at the Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach (Brussels) in 2022.
