Geert Goiris

Geert Goiris
will be exhibiting at Crédac
from 9 September to 8 November
2009
Opening, Tuesday 8 September 2009
from 5 PM to 9 PM
Curator : Claire Le Restif
Communications : Eran Guterman / 01 49 60 25 04
[email protected]
Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac
93, avenue Georges Gosnat - 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
informations : + 33 (0) 1 49 60 25 06
www.credac.fr
Tuesday to Friday 2 PM to 6 PM, Saturday and Sunday 2 PM to 7 PM
free admission
Metro line 7, Mairie d'Ivry / 50 m away from the metro station
(20 minutes from Châtelet)
Vélib Station : 1-3, rue Robespierre - metro Mairie d'Ivry (double station)
Le Crédac receives support from the city of Ivry-sur-Seine, the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles
d'Ile-de-france (Regional Cultural Affairs), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Ministry of
culture and communication), le Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne County Council) and le
Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-Franc e (Ile-de-France Regional council).
Le Crédac is a member of tram and
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This exhibition takes place during the event :
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Geert Goiris, 2009
In 1971 John Lennon recorded “Imagine,” a pacifist hymn from which Geert Goiris
has drawn the title for his first solo show at Crédac. This title accompanies the
visual of the exhibition invitation, which the artist created in Ivry-sur-Seine in
one of the towers of the Jeanne Hachette Center built by the architect Jean Renaudie
between 1970 and 1975 and home to the Contemporary Art Center since 1987.
Goiris (born in 1971), a photographer, works exclusively with the traditional
camera, taking on all of the necessary rigor the medium demands. He manages to
capture the strange spatio-temporal weight where time is crystallized. As Goiris
explains it, “The camera is an instrument that enables one to produce abstractions,
scenes that the eye cannot see. Time is a crucial factor in that. I frequently use
very long exposures (lasting several hours sometimes) that make a different,
non-anthropomorphic framework possible.”
Goiris aims to record the unusualness and rarity of certain sites with the clarity
and precision of Flemish painting, while offering viewers a plus, a range of exotic
motifs like a polar station, an observatory, architectural UFOs from the 1970s, a
wish “tree,” a cement baobab, a solitary rhinoceros, an albino kangaroo….
Goiris tackles images more as a visual artist than as a reporter. He has been
building up an intellectual and perceptible reflection on borders, which has led him
to Chile, Mongolia and Spitsbergen. For his latest work focusing on the optical and
atmospheric phenomenon of the “whiteout,” the artist traveled to Antarctica.
At Crédac, Goiris will be showing a series of images (displayed in slide shows)
that come from such an experience, when the sky is as white as the ground and it
becomes impossible to distinguish one from the other, and where observers feel as
though they are uniformly surrounded. “It’s not a far cry from a trip on the moon,”
says the artist with regard to his expedition. Goiris will also be showing large-scale
photographic prints in poster format that are directly pasted to the walls, classically
framed photos, and light boxes.
Goiris, the first photographer to figure on the Crédac program since 2004, is thus
offering us a show about traces that signify a great deal for him, fleeting or lasting
impressions that symbolically point as well towards the very essence of
photography.
Geert Goiris is the winner of the Baloise Art Prize in the Art Statement sector of Art
Basel, June 2009.
Geert Goiris
Pools at dawn, 1999
Geert Goiris
Suspension, 2006
Geert Goiris
Albino, 2003
Geert Goiris
Curonia, 2000
Biography
Born in 1971 in Bornem
Lives and works in Anvers, Belgium
www.geertgoiris.info
SOLO SHOWS (selection)
2010
CAB, Burgos
Exposition avec Vincent Lamouroux, KASK, Gent
2009 Imagine there's no countries, Centre d'art
contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Whiteout #02, Statements Art Basel, Bâle
2008 Whiteout #01, Images 08 festival, Vevey
2007 Frontier, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Bruxelles
2006 Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain
Saint Nazaire
2005 LFL gallery, New York
2004 The world as we know it (avec Ville Lenkkeri) Prospekto gallery, Vilnius
Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
2003 Lost in Space, Roger Vandaele Edition, Anvers
2002 Possibilities, Netwerk Gallery, Aalst
2001 Van Wijngaarden Gallery, Amsterdam
Surrounded, Gallery Vaclav Spaly, Prague
Kontor in Der Schneiderei, Cologne
2000 Reconstruction, Museum for Photography, Anvers
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2009 Le Travail de rivière, Centre d’art contemporain
d’Ivry - Crédac
The state of Things, Bozar, Bruxelles et NAMOC,
Pékin
Beyond the picturesque, S.M.A.K., Gent
2008 Un-Scene, Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art,
Bruxelles
A meeting between the tragic and the funny,
Hessenhuis, Anvers
Lugares comprometidos, topography and actuality,
Fundación ICO Madrid (Photoespaña festival 2008)
P2P – casino Luxembourg
2007 Private/Public, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,
Rotterdam
The leading Thread, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos
Spectacular City - Photographing the Future, NRWForum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
El Hilo Conductor, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de
Burgos, Burgos
2006 Spectacular City - Photographing the Future,
Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
Tunnel Vision, Fotomuseum, Anvers
Les rencontres d'Arles Photographie, Arles
Freestate, Ostend
Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
Right on Write Off, Chapman Fine ARTS, London
Traces, Biennale #1, photographie et architecture,
Espace Architecture La Cambre, Brussels
Buenos dias Santiago - an exhibition as an expedition,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile
2005 Belgian photographers 1840 - 2005, FotoMuseum,
Anvers
Croiser des mondes, Jeu de Paume, Paris
2004 Undercurrent, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art
Center, Istanbul
Manifesta 5, European Biennial for Contemporary Art,
San Sebastian
2003 At least begin to make an end, W 139, Amsterdam
Kaap Helder, Den Helder
Prix Jeune Peinture Belge, Palais des Beaux Arts,
Bruxelles
Happiness Land, Plovdiv
Contemporary Photography from Flanders,
Karavanserai, Tbilisi
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FR)
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Burgos (ES)
La Salle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago (USA)
ING, Brussels (BE)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR)
Fotomuseum, Antwerp (BE)
University Hospital, Jette (BE)
Williams College Museum of Art (USA)
Flemish Parliament, Brussels (BE)
Seattle Art Museum (USA)
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (FR)
Province of Antwerp (BE)
Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane (AU)
Lhoist Collection, Brussels (BE)
Geert Goiris
From the series Whiteout, 2008-2009
Geert Goiris
From the series Whiteout, 2008-2009
Geert Goiris
From the series Whiteout, 2008-2009
Geert Goiris
From the series Whiteout, 2008-2009
All images : courtesy galerie Art : Concept, Paris
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