Summer of Photography: beyond the male gaze
Róbert Szabó Benke: Bachelorettes
> 31/8, Balassi Institute
38 women. What have they got in common? They are all aged over 25; they are not married; they haven’t had children yet; and each has been immortalised by the Hungarian photographer Róbert Szabó Benke in the same white wedding dress, wearing the same shoes and the same lily in her hair. The difference? Each has chosen, in her own home, the background for the portrait and the pose, thereby reflecting her own personality. The women are all the same, but they are all different.
Ash Bowland: Female Gazing
19/6 > 28/8, InBetween
What happens when it is the woman who looks at the man and no longer the man who looks at the woman? A young photographer (who sees herself as a “manufacturer of images and sculptures, who happens to use photography”) who studied at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels, Ash Bowland pointed her lens at Bruno Roels, who is both a photographer and a journalist specialised in photography, thereby taking the opposite approach to what the cinema theorist Laura Mulvey calls “the male gaze”.
19/6 > 28/8, InBetween
What happens when it is the woman who looks at the man and no longer the man who looks at the woman? A young photographer (who sees herself as a “manufacturer of images and sculptures, who happens to use photography”) who studied at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels, Ash Bowland pointed her lens at Bruno Roels, who is both a photographer and a journalist specialised in photography, thereby taking the opposite approach to what the cinema theorist Laura Mulvey calls “the male gaze”.
© Sari Ember
Sept femmes en résidence
25/6 > 28/9, Contretype
Contretype, “Centre d’Art contemporain pour la Photographie”, based in the superb Hôtel Hannon town house, has been hosting artists in residence, both Belgian and foreign, since 1997; the artists are encouraged to create traces of their stay in Brussels. The results are presented, for the first time, in two exhibitions: the work of the 29 residents can be seen at the Centrale for Contemporary Art, while Contretype focuses on the seven women photographers hosted in the context of the programme.
Sept femmes en résidence
25/6 > 28/9, Contretype
Contretype, “Centre d’Art contemporain pour la Photographie”, based in the superb Hôtel Hannon town house, has been hosting artists in residence, both Belgian and foreign, since 1997; the artists are encouraged to create traces of their stay in Brussels. The results are presented, for the first time, in two exhibitions: the work of the 29 residents can be seen at the Centrale for Contemporary Art, while Contretype focuses on the seven women photographers hosted in the context of the programme.
© Krisztina Erdei
Power & Play
> 13/7 & 4 > 24/8, De Markten
How do things stand today in relation to the question of gender and the rights of women in the former Eastern bloc, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? The “Power & Play” exhibition presents ten monographic projects devoted to artists (women, for the most part) from the countries of the East – including Katarzyna Kozyra from Poland, Anetta Mona Chisa from Romania, and Lucia Tkacova from Slovakia – who have tackled these subjects, sometimes in a provocative way.
Power & Play
> 13/7 & 4 > 24/8, De Markten
How do things stand today in relation to the question of gender and the rights of women in the former Eastern bloc, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? The “Power & Play” exhibition presents ten monographic projects devoted to artists (women, for the most part) from the countries of the East – including Katarzyna Kozyra from Poland, Anetta Mona Chisa from Romania, and Lucia Tkacova from Slovakia – who have tackled these subjects, sometimes in a provocative way.
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