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Apocalypse zine #2

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:17:32 +0000

The second issue of apocalypse zine brings together individual positions dealing with the idea of apocalypse, as an idea of shift, be it personal, ritualistic, or social. A break-in time, destruction, and revelation of the new — the authors were invited to address apocalypse from their point of view.

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Making Divine

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:40:32 +0000

Oliver Leu’s zine Making Divine is based on a picture postcard from the early 20th century. Taken during festivities at the military barrack of Beverloo, this postcard depicts the re-enactment of a colonial monument during a historical play dedicated to Joseph Lippens and Henri De Bruyne, two military men who served in the Force Publique of king Leopold II’s Congo Free State during the 1890s.
In Making Divine the postcard’s motive is reproduced fragmented — shifting the reader’s attention from the apotheosis of the scene to individual actions — emphasizing details, gestures, and the body language of those enacting the De Bruyne – Lippens Monument. A monument that still stands in the Belgian seaside town of Blankenberge today.

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one

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:38:53 +0000

ONE is a visual diary evolving around questions like is religion still able to reconnect humans with the world and with themselves
and which universal values are immanent in different religions. It was photographed during the 2008 Durga Puja in Kolkata, India. — OL

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Leopold’s Legacy – Edition

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 21:07:24 +0000

Leopold’s Legacy by Oliver Leu deals with the forms of representation of the colonial history in Belgium. In his speech from the throne in 1865 king Leopold II dreamed of a Belgium that would be bigger, stronger and more beautiful one day. When he became the private owner of the Congo in 1885 his dream started to become true. It ended when the Congo atrocities became known and the king had to hand his colony over to the belgium state in 1908.
In his project Oliver Leu is looking at the different aspects of the representation of the colonial past that are visible in monuments, buildings and citiescapes. He is also drawn to the hidden parts of this history. The artist questions how monuments change their meaning when we look at them today and how the perception of Leopold‘s role as a glorious king has altered in the last 100 years or more.

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