bending the frame

Beautiful review on our most recent exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan, co-curated by our Wendy Marijnissen

EXHIBITION: THE INNER LENS Four photographers turn the camera inwards to chart memory, labour and loss as forms of resistance

On the final day to see the exhibit ‘Ways of seeing’ we present the work of our founder and the curator of this exhibit, photographer Wendy Marijnissen
Wendy is known for her documentary work about the problems women face in Pakistan regarding motherhood and childbirth. A country she calls her second home for the past 15 years.

In Pakistan she found the freedom to explore the traumatic loss of her own parents and the unfulfilled wish to become a mother herself and transform these intimate experiences into a personal visual narrative.

Within the exhibition she combines work from here series ‘As tears fall’ with some of her archive as well as her book ‘Always the guest’, making new photographic connections within her archive so potentially new visual associations can arise.

Wendy will be at the artspace this afternoon on the final day of the exhibit. Feel welcome to come say hi and learn more about her work and that of the other 6 amazing photographers.

12 to 6pm at Arttelex, Oude Beurs 39 in Antwerpen.

Kamand Razavi is a photographer, originally from Iran and based in Brussels, Belgium since 2017.
In her artistic approach she combines photography and performance videos and tries to understand and reclaim the female body.

‘Betrayed Body’ is a 3 part series in which she explores the difficulties a woman undergoes in Iranian patriarchal and religious society.
In the first part she transcribes the anger and radicalism of the bitter memories of a wasted life. Muted, exhausted rage.
In part two, she brings together intimate issues that women have in common and tries to explore the awareness they have of their bodies. Puberty and physical changes, "women's issues" that are often ignored and/or preferred to be ignored.
The third part further explores the challenges the female body faces, as well as the demands imposed by society or the physical changes the body undergoes throughout life. The embodied dimension.

Vernissage on the 7th of March from 6 to 9 pm in attendance by all the photographers and a performance by dancer Amna Mawaz Khan.
Oude Beurs 39, 2000 Antwerpen

After that open until the 24th of March, Thursday to Sunday from 12 to 6pm.
Welcome! 🌹✨🌺

.a.r.y.a.m_m.o.h

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Julia Gaisbacher is a photographer living and working in Vienna, Austria.
About her photographic practice she says:
"In my work I am interested in the complex interrelationships between social conventions in public space, architecture and individual representation in different media. The topics I have been dealing with lately revolve around the questions of housing, public and private space: who has the power to decide that and what social justice or injustice can be seen through it?”

She uses digital image files as raw material in her working method and experiments with printing processes, supporting material and eventually installations.

Vernissage on the 7th of March from 6 to 9 pm in attendance by all the photographers and a performance by dancer Amna Mawaz Khan.
Arttelex, Oude Beurs 39, 2000 Antwerpen

After that open until the 24th of March, Thursday to Sunday from 12 to 6pm.
Welcome! 🌁✨🌺

.a.r.y.a.m_m.o.h

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