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Item: Blanca

Liesbet Grupping

2024

Photography, 3 x (43 x 33 x 2,8 cm).
Materials: 3 slides: Fujichrome, cardboard, maple frame, museum glass

Collection: Stad Antwerpen, in langdurige bruikleen in M HKA (Inv. no. SCA0084).

‘In the series Blanca, created in the mountain village of the same name in Southern Spain, I used my body as a tripod. Exactly eight minutes and nineteen seconds, the time it takes for the sunlight to reach us.’
- Liesbet Grupping

Liesbet Grupping uses the unpredictability of photography to make things visible that we normally cannot see. She plays with flaws in the camera or the photographic process, rather than avoiding or concealing them. She presents photography as a lively and changeable process that can never be fully controlled. For Blanca, she points her camera at the sun. In the final slides, it is almost impossible to distinguish between the representation of a natural phenomenon (sunlight, mountains) and what is caused by the material and technical properties of the medium itself.

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