Harry Gruyaert: La part des choses

15th June - 24th September 2023

Born in Antwerp in 1941, the photographer Harry Gruyaert is one of the pioneers of colour photography, like the great Americans he discovered and fell in love with at an early age: Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore. Far from the nar­row confines of his native Belgium, New York in the early 1970s exposed him to pop art and taught him ''to cast a different eye on the ordinary, to accept a form of ugli­ness in the world and to do something with that!' His friendships with the avant-garde (Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Nanas) reinforced what Antonioni's Red Desert -''seen a thousand times''- had already instilled in him: the need to explore the world, to throw himself into it headlong, not in order to describe it or to inform us about it, but rather to shape it, to model it. To render his perception of things instead of the things them­selves. To become a seer, not a witness. 

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