Thursday 10 April, 2025
In recent years, Bieke Depoorter has sought out amateur stargazer, visited observatories, and researched the history of astronomy. Never especially interested in the field earlier, she gradually realized that her new obsession was related to childhood memorieslost du to trauma. The night sky is, after all, a kind of shared memory: the light from celestial bodies can take hundreds or thousands of light-years to reach on earth.
Depoorter felt reluctant to look at stars herself but was drawn to observing others as they observed the universe. In Blinked Myself Awake, she investigates the fragility of memory, photography’s unreliability, the subjectivity of photography, and the elusive nature of ‘truth.’ She connects the dots of a highly personal narrative, interweaving images of stargazers with diaristic texts and fragments from the history of astronomy.
The conversation will be held in english and it will be followed by a signing session.
Paid admission. Tickets available on the online ticketing service.
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Inaugurated in June 2023, Le Feuilletage is an event format proposed by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, dedicated to photography books.
Le Feuilletage invites a photographer to reflect on the genesis of one of his or her books, from the selection of images to the layout and sequencing.
With the support of La SAIF.
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