Bruno V. Roels - Trying To Make It Real: Part I & II
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softcover, 336 pages, 22 x 30 cm, 1400g, ENG/ FR
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Bruno V. Roels - Trying To Make It Real: Part I & II
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Bringing many years of work together in a single place, here on the page, rather than on the walls of a museum or gallery, we can consider both senses in which Roels thinks images are worth repeating. In the obstinate and dedicated labour of printing and arranging serial, but different, versions of single images together; and then also with regard to the overall effect of bringing these iterations of themselves into the same space... From ‘the subtlety of aquaria’ as Dalí himself put it ’to the fastest most fleeting gestures of wild animals, the photograph affords us a thousand fragmentary images culminating in a dramatized cognitive totalization.’ That too, is something worth repeating..
Bruno Roels divides his time between writing and photographing. He considers the act of printing (turning a photograph into a tangible object) as important as the act of photographing itself. He photographs almost nonstop, documenting his entire life, building a sizable archive. In his dark room he uses that archive to explore the analogue photographic process. Rather than trying to make ‘the perfect gelatin silver print’ he assumes that all prints are perfect and gives all variations equal attention.
He’s looking for poetry, and photographic truth, in sequences and fluctuations. Details in his photographs may become lead motives in bigger compositions, and obvious subject matter is reduced to abstract information through numerous reiterations.
Editing and sequencing: Bruno V. Roels & Reg Herygers
Design: Reg Herygers at Undercast
336 pages
22 x 30 cm
English, French
Texts by: Simon Baker, Stefan Vanthuyne & Bruno V. Roels
Publication date: June 2021
ISBN: 9789464002041
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