Lidwien van de Ven

Lidwien van de Ven

Le Grand Café—Contemporary Art Centre

January 28, 2005

Lidwien van de Ven
January 30th to March 20th, 2005

Opening date: Saturday January 29th, from 6pm
Meeting with Lidwien van de Ven: Sunday January 30th at 4pm
Hours: Daily (except Monday) 2 – 7pm, Sunday 3 – 6pm

Le Grand Cafe
Place des Quatre Z’Horloges,
44600 Saint-Nazaire – FRANCE
T +33 (0)2 40 22 37 66 / F +33 (0)2 40 22 43 86
grand_cafe [​at​] mairie-saintnazaire.fr

Curator: Sophie Legrandjacques

Although she has been using film since 1995, Lidwien van de Ven (The Netherlands) is above all a photographer. Since 1985 she has been developing a meditation on the meaning of the image. After having notably photographed buildings that bear witness to major historical changes, such as the Reichstag or the Berlin Olympic stadium, she has now turned to the themes of politics and religion and their re-creation in images by the press. Above all, she asks questions about the unseen in events covered by the media.

She therefore travels the world and frequently occupies the same sites of investigation as journalists, where she explores questions of representation, of the mechanics of image perception, of what is
visible or invisible. However, the images that she makes do not obey the rules of photojournalism (the search for the spectacular, the immediate perception of that which is represented…). Hand printed in large format black and white, her images often record that which is outside the frame of news stories, keeping to the margins of events and engaging the viewer in a “slow motion” reading.

The Grand Cafe exhibition shows recent images made in the Middle East and in Europe, which relate to contemporary politics and religion. Whether presented as “paintings” or as urban billboard posters, Lidwien van de Ven’s images do not strictly-speaking suggest a counter-report. They carefully investigate the frontier between reality and representation, image and language, news and contemporary history, while leaving whole the enigma of the visible.

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