2020 Photobook Week Aarhus: Intimacy and Resistance
Intimacy and Resistance: An Intergenerational dialogue on Photobooks from South Africa with additions from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Curated by John Fleetwood
Download the curatorial statement here.
Intimacy and Resistance is an exhibition of photobooks and recorded conversations between different generations of South African photographers with additions from Sub-Saharan Africa. The exhibition forms part of the Photobook Week Aarhus 2020 festival and will run from the 1-4 October 2020 at Gallery Image, Denmark.
The exhibition deals with notions of intimacy and resistance by looking at intergenerational exchanges and books.
22 books are shown at the exhibition including photobooks, photo publications, exhibition catalogues, artist proofs and dummies. In addition to the books there is a series of recorded conversations between photographers, curators, writers and producers to develop an intergenerational reflection on how photobooks of different generations influence a current understanding of photography practice. These video and sound conversations were recorded at a time of COVID-19 that further opens up the discussion around the intimacies of the book, of self and of sharing.
In line with the overall theme of the Photobook Week Aarhus 2020, Intimacy and Resistance looks at generational seriality, multiplicity and repetition.
Some of the books included are House of Bondage (Ernest Cole) In Boksburg, On the Mines (David Goldblatt) and The Black Photo Album (Santu Mofokeng.) Also featured are Jansen van Staden’s artist proof photobook Microlight, and Eric Gyamfi’s A certain bed dummy.
The conversations include Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, John Fleetwood, Jabulani Dhlamini, Brenda Goldblatt, Kelebogile Ntladi, Simon Gush, Lerato Bereng, and Mika Conradie.
Intimate recorded conversations featuring South African photobooks
With thanks to:
Lily Goldblatt, The Goldblatt Family, Stevenson Gallery, Tymon Smith, Jodi Bieber, Eric Gyamfi, Jansen van Staden
Simon Gush, Victoria Wigzell, Lerato Bereng, Brenda Goldblatt, Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, Jabulani Dhlamini, Kelebogile Ntladi
The Galleri Image team
The Photobook Week Aarhus team
The Photo: team Mika Conradie, Victor Mothla and Ravélle Pillay
Beate Cegielska and Moritz Neumüller
Posted 01/10/2020