THE HOUSE
fotografie di
Karin Borghouts (B)
05 10 2019 – 08 12 2019

Presentazione
Dirk Veulemans (english text)
Biografia
pubblicazioni

APERTURE STRAORDINARIE
DOMENICA h 14 – 17
20 10 2019 10 11 2019
01 12 2019 08 12 2019

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Il 13 marzo 2012 la casa materna di Karin Borghouts è distrutta da un incendio e le contrastanti emozioni che la fotografa si ritrova a vivere vengono trasformate in un lavoro fotografico che riesce a fissare e congelare per sempre gli ambienti e gli oggetti casalinghi carbonizzati e quasi purificati dal fuoco.
Gli oggetti ancora riconoscibili ricordano frammenti di vita passata e questo ricordo sarà d’aiuto per prepararsi ad una fase successiva della vita passando da un processo doloroso, ma nello stesso tempo liberatorio, fino a trasformarsi in uno stato rinnovato di esistenza.
Karin Borghouts è una fotografa belga che lavora specialmente con l’architettura e collabora per progetti site specific e committenze di musei, case editrici, architetti ed artisti in Belgio e in Europa.
I lavori della fotografa belga sono ricchi di riferimenti alla pittura e fanno parte di importanti collezioni pubbliche e private in Europa e Giappone.
Particolare cura dedica alle pubblicazioni delle sue ricerche fotografiche.
Il progetto del libro Paris Impasse è stato selezionato ad Arles per il Luma Rencontres Dummy Award 2019.
Le fotografie di Karin Borghouts presentate in CONS ARC/GALLERIA sono stampate su carta mat Archival Photorag mat

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THE HOUSE -2012
Black mirror     ed 4/10    
archival pigment print cm 65×52
pasted on Dibond /frame

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THE HOUSE
Karin Borghouts
“My childhood home was destroyed by a fire. The event caused a shock and a wake of many emotions, practical concerns and changes. Almost everyone faces the clearing of one’s parental home at some point in his life, often after a move or death of the parent(s). This period of emotions, considerations, and cleaning, I consciously experienced over time. I also tried to take pictures.” Karin Borghouts
Flaring carbon particles merge into patterns of flaming tongues licking skyward. House on fire. Fierce exothermic chemical processes consuming it. Objects change form, change colour and fall apart into unrecognizable ashes through the scorching heat of a reaction that will only stop when nothing is left to be oxidized. It leaves the witness in a delicate balance between fleeing and watching. Instinct. From time immemorial the unstoppable fire induces an intangible respect, causes a near-sacred momentum uniting the opposites of “extasy” and “supreme cautiousness”.
When someone’s material life’s story completes this way, in this short but intense process it’s as if all linked memories and feelings are fixed as well as dissolved. A wormhole between just now and tomorrow. An abrupt transition. No use resisting. A confrontation with an unplanned future that’s suddenly there.
In the black wetness among smoke, hissing and cooling the new reality commences. Recall is only sustained by memory now. Parting with objects that carried fragments of a past life can be painful, but there is also a feeling of liberation from the material-psychological bond. The carriers of history vanish, the meaning remains and looks for a new point of attachment. This irreversible point in life has congealed memories suddenly and intensely flaring up. The fire chases ballast. It purifies.
This work is a testimony. The parental home that was and would be always there burned down. Aesthetizing the event holds a form of respect for everything that was transformed from matter into a renewed state of existence.
Dirk Veulemans

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THE HOUSE -2012
Selfportrait   ed 2/7   
archival pigment print cm 100×80
pasted on Dibond /frame

THE HOUSE -2012
Doors    ed 1/7 
archival pigment print cm 100×80
pasted on Dibond /frame

THE HOUSE -2012
Still life    ed 1/3  
archival pigment print  cm 90×120
pasted on Dibond /frame