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Item: Zelfportret nr.35
1990
Photography, 54 x 54 cm.
Materials: gelatin silver print
Collection: (c) Dirk Braeckman, Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpen.
"In the first period I started, although I was already physically dealing with the print, very emphatically from photography. Also, my work was viewed exclusively in photographic circles. I limited myself to the portrait and in a sense, in so doing I locked myself up in photography. But the gaze of the portrayed was too determinant. So I did very consciously turn away from the gaze and made a series of portraits without eye contact, it were photographs where the gaze was literally averted. Precisely the absence of that contact became the subject of the photographs."
Bert Danckaert, Schilderkunst lijkt steeds meer op fotografie: Dirk Braeckman wint Cultuurprijs Beeldende Kunst, H ART, 16 February 2006
