Temporary exhibition Tiny Gallery
Great Art in photography
Symbolism, Esotericism, Occultism (1860 – 1918) Photography in the Art Nouveau Period
To describe a medium born of chemistry as ‘great art’ is to recall its spiritual genealogy. Long before Daguerre and Talbot, light was understood as a force that could affect matter: naturalists and alchemists had already observed that silver darkens in the sun. This was the decisive insight: light does not merely illuminate, it acts upon and transforms matter. The invention of photography is therefore based on a history of apparitions: matter receives, changes, bears witness. From this perspective, photography is not so much a copy of the world as a coagulated event. The exhibition has a dual objective: on the one hand, to describe how the photographic process grants to photography its artistic presence and, on the other hand, to recognize the symbolic, spiritual or psychic dimensions that comes forth out of this process.
Credits and references
Curator : Olivier Guyaux — TinyGallery, Bruxelles
Marie-Hélène Sion, Carole Moncoquet, Dephine d’Helia Petermfriess, Dan Zhu
In collaboration with
La Société Française de Photographie
la collection F. Van Hoof – G. Williame
l’Atelier Symboliste
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1050 Ixelles (Flagey)