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fotografie --- portretfotografie --- zelfportret --- zelfportretten --- België --- Amouzou Hélène --- enscenering --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 77.071 AMOUZOU --- Exhibitions

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Splendid Isolation is a group exhibition that seeks to explore the particular conditions of life in solitude, and more precisely the creative impulses it can nourish. Bringing together an intergenerational and international group of artists, it centres on the artistic output that is induced by life under self-imposed or forced restrictions and foregrounds herein a number of positions. They include working conditions in which artists have been brutally cut off from their environment, have opted for a voluntary withdrawal or are bound to live in socially restricted conditions within their own community. Solitude can be either welcomed or dreaded as uninvited loneliness. The introspection and concentration associated with a creative practice has occasionally motivated artists to withdraw from society. Living in silence can be experienced as an advantage or even as a necessary requirement to create. Today, any form of absolute isolation has become hard to imagine. In a globalised world with its deeply networked structures, life is imbued with interaction, visibility and connectedness. Under these circumstances, personal withdrawal and escapist desires often align with the choice for a more sustainable or even autarkic life or are inspired by a fundamental dissatisfaction with an unjust political system.

Solitude in art --- Art, Modern --- kunst --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Abu Shakra Asim --- Blank Irma --- Bess Forrest --- Amouzou Hélène --- Walter Frank --- Yamguen Hervé --- Bergeman Danny --- Atta Sabri Salam --- Bourgeois Louise --- Dogan Zehra --- Houédard Dom Sylvester --- Dittborn Eugenio --- Vescovi Adrien --- Abdel Hamid Majd --- Hakihiiwe Sheroanawe --- Byrd David --- Hessie --- Malani Nalini --- Jarman Derek --- Ashoona Shuvinai --- Scott Judith --- Perna Luciano --- 7.039 --- Tentoonstellingen ; actuele kunst ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Kunst en existentie ; angst ; leegte ; eenzaamheid --- Museumcatalogi ; Gent ; S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst --- 7.039(493) --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2050 ; België --- Blank, Irma --- Bourgeois, Louise --- Doğan, Zehra --- Hamid, Majd Abdel --- Al Atassi, Mohamed Ali --- Jarman, Derek --- Malani, Nalini --- Walter, Frank --- Yamguen, Hervé --- Art --- eenzaamheid --- Abo-Shakra, Assim --- Bess, Forrest --- Frank, Walter --- Houédard, Dom Sylvester --- Scott, Judith --- Amouzou, Hélène --- Sabri, Salam Atta --- Vescovi, Adrien --- Dittborn, Eugenio

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Curated by renowned London-based curator, Mark Sealy MBE, the FotoFest Biennial 2020, 'African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other' brings together over 30 artists from around the globe whose works challenge traditional notions of Blackness and transnational histories in relation to concepts of liberty, rights, and representation. Taking its cues from John Coltrane's avant-garde jazz oeuvre, wherein formal modernisms of the past are made complex by radical imagination and black-futurity, this presentation of diverse ideas, artistic approaches, and material histories proposes a cosmological exploration of Africa and the contemporary African diaspora; one that defies easy categorization and spatial and temporal boundaries. In their unique practices, the featured artists turn an eye to social, cultural, and political conditions that inform and influence concepts of representation as they pertain to image production and circulation in Africa and beyond. These artists question the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and deconstructed by the camera, and in the process, reveal legacies of resistance by those who defy traditional ideas of sexual, racial, gender-based, and other marginalized identities.Produced in conjunction with the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition, the 'African Cosmologies' book will feature essays by leading scholars in the fields of contemporary art, photography, and cultural studies. Images of installations, photography, film, and video works by artists will highlight the range of interdisciplinary approaches that are represented in the Biennial exhibition.

Photography, Artistic --- Art, Modern --- fotografie --- portretfotografie --- landschapsfotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- Afrika --- kolonialisme --- postkolonialisme --- Abdu'Allah Faisal --- Akinbiyi Akinbode --- Amouzou Hélène A --- Baloji Sammy --- Barnor James --- Boudjelal Bruno --- Chagas Edson --- Cole Ernest --- Cyrus Jamal --- Depara Jean --- El-Tantawy Laura --- Fosso Samuel --- Gambo Rahima --- Gyamfi Eric --- Harris Lyle Ashton --- Kambalu Samson --- Fani-Kayode Rotimi --- de Miranda Monica --- Mofokeng Santu --- Msezane Sethembile --- Muholi Zanele --- Muluneh Aïda --- Neves Eustaquio --- Ouedraogo Nyaba L --- Paulino Rosana --- Petros Dawit L --- Saro-Wiwa Zina --- Silvestri Aida --- Sobekwa Linokuhle --- Ukpong Wilfred --- Weems Carrie Mae --- leo --- Baile Shobun --- 77.041 --- Exhibitions