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Dirk Braeckman
LUSTER./, GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US), January 20 - February 26, 2022

Dirk Braeckman: LUSTER./

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  • A series of large black and white photographs depicting images of water are hung in a line in the middle of a wall to the left. This photo looks to a corner of the gallery where that wall is visible, along with a column, wood floor, and another gallery wa
  • Dirk Braeckman Luster 2022 Install 7
  • Dirk Braeckman Luster 2022 Install 8
  • Dirk Braeckman Luster 2022 Install 11
  • Dirk Braeckman Luster 2022 Install 10
  • Dirk Braeckman Luster 2022 Install 4
Press release
R.N.-W.S.-21, 2021
R.N.-W.S.-21, 2021

GRIMM is pleased to announce its first exhibition with Belgium-based artist Dirk Braeckman titled LUSTER./ at its New York gallery opening on January 20, 2022. This is the artist’s first solo show in New York in over a decade, which brings together photographs and video work from 2012 to 2021. A small publication will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

The photographs by Braeckman are enigmatic in their evasion of clear, linear narratives; an approach that can be seen as contradictory to the traditional deliberations of the medium. Explorations of time, however, remain in focus through a disrupted, abstracted means. Braeckman’s compositions are pulled from a seemingly endless archive of negatives that the artist has built over decades. Oftentimes a negative does not see the light of day for years until the artist is ready to employ its image. Images are then merged, manipulated, to create new inexplicable worlds, pushing the boundaries of photography by the sheer refusal of offering practical or evidential representations. 

Featuring distant seascapes, architectural details and blurred nudes, Braeckman’s photographs are more akin to a painterly worldbuilding rather than documentation. The artist, much like the rest of the us, has retreated the past two years to a more localized life. An impulse for travel has shaped much of Braeckman’s life and practice, but recently the artist has returned to the studio and his darkroom, experimenting with new techniques and utilizing everything within his reach to create new confounding compositions.

Also included in the exhibition is the video work Hemony (2012), which features a swinging monumental church bell filmed from below. Tension builds as the swinging speeds up. The viewer waits for the bell clapper to hit, to hear the familiar strike of a bell’s tone, though the film remains silent. The absence of anticipated sound echoes themes of desire, offering a beautiful harmony to the darkness and voids of the photographs. 

 

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Press
  • Dirk Braeckman GRIMM | NEW YORK

    Jeffrey Kastner, Artforum, April 1, 2022
  • Journey to Far Horizons and Distant Landscapes with Dirk Braeckman

    Ravi Ghosh, Elephant, February 8, 2022
  • Grimm : Dirk Braeckman : Luster./

    Jean-Jacques Naude, The Eye of Photography, January 21, 2022
  • Dirk Braeckman: LUSTER./

    Ayla Angelos, Port, January 21, 2022
Publications
  • LUSTER./

    LUSTER./

    Dirk Braeckman Published by GRIMM on the occasion of "LUSTER./", the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery at its New York location. Design: Simon Bultynck, 2022
    Hard cover with linen 88 pages
    Publisher: GRIMM Amsterdam (NL)
    ISBN: ISBN 98-90-831888-5-0
    Dimensions: 216 x 145 mm | 85 1/8 x 57 1/8 in
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  • LUSTER./ Publications

    LUSTER./

    Dirk Braeckman March 2, 2022
    Design: Pol Bulté Texts: Brian Scholis Editors: Lorenza Brancadoro, Sebastiaan Brandsen, Simon Bultynck, Jorien de Vries, Michael Plunkett, Emily Small, Griet Teck Photography: Sarah Bruyninckx,...
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  • Journey to Far Horizons and Distant Landscapes with Dirk Braeckman Press

    Journey to Far Horizons and Distant Landscapes with Dirk Braeckman

    Elephant February 8, 2022
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  • Dirk Braeckman: LUSTER./ Press

    Dirk Braeckman: LUSTER./

    Port January 21, 2022
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  • Grimm : Dirk Braeckman : Luster./ Press

    Grimm : Dirk Braeckman : Luster./

    The Eye of Photography January 21, 2022
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