Photography for me is when the factual can meet the fictional, when the imagined reaches the actual.

What role does publishing play in your artistic practice and in particular in your work Horsehead Nebula and Tidal Horizon?

My books Horsehead Nebula and Tidal Horizon are the sums of the efforts made to tie a work together. A book conveys best what I produce: The combination of images and texts, as well as the format and the characteristics of a book contribute to let the viewer immerse in the work created. I also like the democratic aspect of the book: nearly anyone can see, touch or have it.

What are you working on at the moment?

Currently, I’m working on my project Oasis in the framework of the Somfy Photography Award at the Nederlands Fotomuseum. I explore the poetic and the factual aspects of a territory near Liège, Belgium that is under threat of unplanned building. Sadly enough, these kinds of areas are sometimes still seen as ‘negative’ or wasted space by planners and promoters (because of their unprofitability).

I want to investigate how built and unbuilt environments are combined and why these spaces are important. The land is being more and more covered with concrete. It is important for me to sensitize people and politicians to the positive aspects of these areas in order to think about a collective way of designing the spaces we live in.

To get a closer view inside Matthieu Litt’s work visit his website under www.matthieulitt.com

malenki.net features the following publications by Matthieu Litt

Der Beitrag Meanwhile in Liège — Interview with Matthieu Litt erschien zuerst auf malenki.net.

Tidal Horizon
Jan 10 — March 29, 2020

Opening Friday, Jan 10, 2020, 6 PM,
with a music performance by Myriam Pruvot starting at 8 PM

Le Jacques Franck Centre Culturel
Chaussée de Waterloo Laan 94, 1060 St-Gilles, Brussels

The exhibition Tidal Horizon by Matthieu Litt is the second collaboration between the Jacques Franck Cultural Center and the Charleroi Museum of Photography

In Tidal Horizon, photographer and graphic designer Matthieu Litt presents a selection of images taken during an artist’s residency in Norway. At the heart of this work, the perpetual movement of the universal phenomenon of the tides brings the photographer to wonder about the dialogue between Man and Nature, and immerses him to reflect on the notion of the Sublime.

The sequence offers a poetic and philosophical examination of the interaction between Man, at the height of his finitude, and Nature, on the scale of his unlimited time, unless following the observation of the various harmful effects of human origin, perception surreptitiously becomes the opposite …

More information about Matthieu Litt and his publication Tidal Horizon can be found here.

Der Beitrag Tidal Horizon — solo show by Matthieu Litt erschien zuerst auf malenki.net.

More details about the fair and the whole list of participants here.
Admission is free.

Opening hours
Saturday, September 8, 2018
11AM – 6PM

Sunday, September 9, 2018
11AM – 6PM

Fair Venue

Wiels Art Book Fair
WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels, Belgium

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Der Beitrag Wiels Art Book Fair erschien zuerst auf malenki.net.