27.1/21.7/045/2014
2014, 120 x 180 cm
ultrachrome ink jet print on matte paper mounted on aluminium

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27.1/21.7/037/2014
2014, 180 x 120 cm
gelatin silver print mounted on aluminium

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27.1/21.7/031/2014
2014, 90 x 60 cm
ultrachrome inkjet print on Japanese silk paper mounted on Japanese paper

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27.1/21.7/030/2014
2014, 90 x 60 cm
gelatin silver print mounted on Japanese paper

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27.1/21.7/023/2014
2014, 90 x 60 cm
gelatin silver print mounted on japanese paper

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27.1/21.7/009/2014
2014, 180 x 120 cm
gelatin silver print mounted on aluminium

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twentyseven.one.seven, March 2014
installation view at Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout

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27.1/21.7/010/2014
2014, 90 x 60 cm
gelatin silver print mounted on japanese paper

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all images courtesy of the artist

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A new series of photographs by Belgian photographer and filmmaker DIRK BRAECKMAN are currently on display at  Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp. Meditative, intimate, and often opaque, his large-scale photographs in shades of grey tell intriguing stories charged with an odd atmosphere.

I delete all references to when and where the picture is taken. In a way I work against the medium and do the opposite of what photography is originally meant for. My goal is to make the viewer guess and wonder. I want the image to stand by itself – a story is not necessary. It could be taken anywhere. I don’t want to show a certain reality, rather a sensation. My pictures are very tactile, they become objects, like a painting. – DIRK BRAECKMAN in conversation with SARAH SCHUG

Good news: Twentyseven.one.seven is currently on view at Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp until April 12, 2014. Additionally his installation Anonymous / Dirk Braeckman / / Schwarzschild is on view at S.M.A.K., Ghent. Meanwhile I really recommend this interview between DIRK BRAECKMAN and ERIK EELBODE for American Suburb X.

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