"In the Shadow of Trees" is the exhibition at Hangar during PhotoBrussels
Festival 06. It brings together twenty-two photographic projects (including the
three winners of the Prize).
In the context of PhotoBrussels Festival, Hangar presents the collective show
"In the Shadow of Trees". The exhibition brings together 21 artists.
Standing alone in the landscape, or surrounded by or competing with its peers in
the forest, forming a distant or close part of human activities, the tree is a
highly pertinent subject in contemporary photography. The variations of forms
and light that the tree expresses so well, in essence, the raw materials of
photography, did not escape the pioneers of this medium in the 19th century
either. Throughout the history of art, the tree has been used as an explicit
symbol of life, growth, of seasonal death, and resilience. While the tree, the
world’s largest living organism, sometimes surviving for thousands of years, is
often the emblem of a particular region or culture, it is also a state of mind.
The images revealed by the lens make it possible to gain an idea of the artist’s
character and emotions. It is precisely that extraordinary diversity that the
Hangar aims to reflect through “In the Shadow of Trees”, an exhibition that
brings together twenty or so photographic projects. The show also aims to shine
a light on the crucial place that trees occupy in life and the influence they
have on the survival of humankind. Indeed, in 2022 we can no longer ignore the
ecological and environmental underlying all artistic work. On the one hand, “In
the Shadow of Trees” invites us to capture the flow of energy that emanates from
these artistic projects and the way in which they affect our mood, attitude and
desires. While on the other, the exhibition calls on us to become aware that
every individual on this planet Earth, lives in some way in the shadow of trees…
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About PhotoBrussels Festival:
Created in 2015 by Hangar, PhotoBrussels Festival is the unmissable annual event
dedicated to photography. Exhibitions, meetings, workshops, conferences...
constitute a global program that covers the whole city of Brussels through forty
partner venues. Hangar is the epicenter of the Festival, proposing a thematic
exhibition and creating a common program for all the venues: the Festival Tour.
