AZADE
Opening reception 28/08
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Your Best Interest Is My Priority, So Stop Ignoring Me, You Can’t
Gevaert editions 2022
Twelve postcards in a paper folder and wrap-around band
Postcards: 10.5 × 14.8 cm; folder: 14 × 18.3 cm (folded) / 32 x 24.2 cm (unfolded)
Limited edition of 77 numbered copies printed in Offset
This collaborative production reflects the conditions in which Koenraad Dedobbeleer simultaneously took over the spaces of Keijiban and rue_du_chapeau_10, a small message-board placed on the door of Gevaert Editions’ office and exhibition space. While the artist presented a black and white photograph in the Belgian venue, confronting the viewers to a medieval gate that is both open and impenetrable, the Japanese noticeboard hosted a hybrid structure (reminiscent of a kōsatsuba, the ancestor of keijiban) displaying a weekly selection of postcards from the artist’s collection.
This series of twelve images composes, in four episodes, a story about the gaze, about the relationship of looking and performing, about seeing and being seen. For the edition, reproductions of these postcards are enclosed in a paper folder, which viewers can activate to display the images one after the other, as in a kamishibai (紙芝居, literally a “paper theater”). Through this apparently simple device, Dedobbeleer sets up a complex network of visual and cultural references, where the notion of “exhibition” is unfolded in its many utterances.
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