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Zomerboek

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:28:20 +0000

zomerboek,
with fragmented out:
Taoïsme by Patricia the Martyr
Zijde by Alessandro Baricco
Lofzang op de schaduw by Junichiro Tanizaki
De eerste keer dat ik mijn hoed verloor by Colette
De andere kant van de natuur by Rainer Maria Rilke
Nieuwe bloemengids by Tirion

in respective order.

‘sunprints’ made in the shade of the mulberry tree,
grapevine and patio with hollyhocks and fragrant jasmine in the Eugeen Joorsstraat in Antwerp, in the summer of 2020 and 2021. Alternating between hammock and garden chair, feet under and on the table, I read de eerste keer dat ik mijn bed verloor by Colette. I reposition and light up the page. Squeeze the book, observe the shifting of the shadow and end up in the hammock in Cussangy where I got the idea to print this zomerboek. I read and walk through the garden with white pages, breathe slowly and count 8 minutes and 19 seconds, that is the time it takes for the sunlight to reach us and to expose the paper. Rinse with water and it turns blue.

This is the time of hydrangeas and unripe pears.

Liesbet Grupping
August, 2021

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L’ombre d’un doute (Shadow of a doubt)

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:54:56 +0000

“A thought for you during my journey, I can’t wait to tell you all about it. Thank you for the books, they accompany my walks well. A photo reminded me of our last conversation. You will understand.”

L’ombre d’un doute is a black and white edition of a hundred pages, printed at the end of 2020 and limited to 50 copies. It presents a body of photographs taken between 2018 and 2020 in Brussels and especially its outlying suburbs, as well as during walks and cycle rides in the French, Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg countryside.

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shelter

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:17:48 +0000

shelter, a short English word with multiple ramifications. It evokes the hermit, the poet, the refugee, the homeless person, the destitute, the domestic or wild animal passing by, the wanderer as much as the metaphor, the urgency, the necessity: to inhabit / to think – to join and meet / to share – to transport? to move? to hide? to
(re)settle? … to play?
Through images and text, shelter explores and declines fundamental questions – rhizomes and rebounds -: what are we building? for whom? why? who do we protect? from what? how? what is a shelter? a ladder? A scale? – a shell? a value? a temporality? – who lives where? how? why? with whom? what does this shelter, do these ladders, and scales, mean to you, us, them? To me? Could Memory (or love?) be the ultimate shelter(s)?

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van A naar B

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:42:49 +0000

The edition van A naar B consists of a double folded image: Boat trip from Gran Canaria to Tenerife, with inside detachable texts. The texts are extracts from Glow by Sandor Marai and On seeing and noticing by Alain de Botton.
The story starts as a concrete, clear tale and ends in an amalgam of absurd sentences that somehow fit together. van A naar B focuses on the road – or deviation – between departure and arrival. In the same way that thoughts behave when considering a landscape, the spectator will also find himself erring through the story. At the same time the spectator can get lost when browsing through the texts.

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afto

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:19:39 +0000

Aujourd’hui nous appartient. Aujourd’hui ouvre.

Afto - a small word that appears everywhere in the Greek language - deepens questions inherent in the work on quotation (such as direct speech, the writing of the other, the crossing of languages ...).
Afto - examines in word and image the concept of the "fantastic land" from a literary perspective, it is the sudden confrontation with what we are offered to see; what creates closeness. It is the natural proof that something visible, can’t be seen at all. An attempt to clarify ...

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Vague de rêve / Wave of Dream

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:54:54 +0000

On en sort aveuglé
de la noirceur
qui éclaire
notre imaginaire

We come out blind
from the darkness
that illuminates
our imagination

Vague de rêve / Wave of Dream by Maria Baoli is a multi-layered narrative collage tracing dreams and reality and pointing out the poetic sensibilities that all life on earth have in common. Made over a three-year period, the book weaves together photographs, cyanotypes, collages and haikus.

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IRIS Number 3: Very violet

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:38:44 +0000

Series of poems created from iris names, one of the most hybrided flower in occidental countries. Each book corresponds to one poem and contains images of the irises used to build the poem.

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IRIS Number 2: Jolly Joey

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:49:27 +0000

Series of poems created from iris names, one of the most hybrided flower in occidental countries. Each book corresponds to one poem and contains images of the irises used to build the poem.

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IRIS Number 1: Above the clouds

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 02:40:34 +0000

Series of poems created from iris names, one of the most hybrided flower in occidental countries. Each book corresponds to one poem and contains images of the irises used to build the poem.

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objets, paroles

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:02:08 +0000

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