From the beaches of the Baie de Somme to those of Morocco or Tanzania,
Harry Gruyaert has been recording the subtle chromatic pulsations of the
shores of the entire world for more than forty years. Blurred, threatening or
limpid skies, games of shadows and alchemy of horizons reveal
The photographer is looking for the dazzling instant, when light floods and
cuts the space. Fifteen years after the first edition of a series that has
become legendary; Harry Gruyaert has enriched it with around fifty new
images showing the inexhaustible possibilities of poetic wonder.
Outstanding colourist, the Antwerp photographer Harry Gruyaert has been
casting a pictorial gaze on the world for half a century. In the 70s and 80s —
with the Americans Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore and
William Eggleston — Gruyaert was one of the rare European pioneers to
give color a purely creative dimension. His work has been exhibited all over
the world and is notably part of the permanent collection of the Center
Georges Pompidou
” Harry photographs the vibrating boundaries between what he finds and
what he has, between what he knows and what he feels; the shaky
boundaries between what he discovers and what he makes himself; the
blurred boundaries, I mean, between what sustains him and what moves
him. He photographs the boundaries that hover just beyond our sight too,
the shadows of an actual reality too blurred, too confused, too nuanced for
any language to hold. - He captures it whole. He holds it. - As powerful art.
OPENING NIGHT
MEMORIES
Elina Kechicheva & Harry Gruyaert
Eugenia Havrylko & Mehmet Arici
Sebastien Trihan & Thea Govorchin
