“REPLICA FALSIFICA” - °2023
Conceived in the form of an artist's book, Replica Falsifica is a collection of "archetypal" images, photographs of landscapes and of objects found on the net and photographied.
These images oscillate between fiction and reality. The result is a "promenade" through unusual landscapes that refer to a cultural past and collective imagery. In black and white, printed on a concrete-looking cardboard and unfolding in the form of a 36-pages Leporello, Replica Falsifica looks like a collection of "false friends". The texts that accompany the images would seem to be a guide and an aid to understanding. The very opposite is true in fact, as the "poems" by the author and essayist Eric Min (BE, 1959) only add to the viewer's confusion, as they are disconnected from the images they seem to mirror. As in the previous series Winks of tangency and Borderline, it’s a wish to unmask the make-believe and misleading tangent of images through this “collection” which verges on abstraction.
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“Replica Falsifica, the title of this collection, may at first glance seem like an oxymoron. How can a duplicate be inaccurate when it is expected, by definition, to conform to the original? Of course, it’s all a matter of words, and words as well as images offer multiple facets, which is, let us note from the outset, the whole subjest of this unusual essay. …”
Jean-Marc Bodson.
Texts EN, by Eric Min & Jean-Marc Bodson
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Leporello, dim. 15 x 12 x 4 cm ( folded ), 2 x 36 pages, 34 images, 32 texts
Black & White, offset print on gey cardboard, case cover
Book design by David Boon & Paul D’Haese
ISBN 9789464363340
Limited co-edition Hangar / Contretype / Stockmans Art Books
200 copies, signed and numbered
Released April 18th, 2023
With the support of Hangar Photo Art Center & Contretype
Numbered / Signed - 95 euro
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Large Leporello, dim 28 x 22 x 5cm ( folded ), 690 cm unfolded
Limited edition.
Fine Art Print on grey cardboard by Milo-Profi
Binding by Tatsuya Inuikawa
Price on request.
“BORDERLINE” - °2021
“With Borderline, the Belgian artist Paul D’Haese explores the coastal strip from Bray-Dunes to Le Havre.
His photographs of the chaotic built-up landscape with
its blind walls, parapets and fences ironically depict
this coastline as a new “Atlantic wall”.
In this, they form a masterful visual fable about the desert that can become a country that closes itself off.”
Jean-Marc Bodson
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Migrant crisis
Atlantic wall / Atlantikwall
Identity
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
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Text EN / FR, by Jean-Marc Bodson (La Libre)
Preface EN / NL, by Dirk De Wachter (KUL)
Dim. 28,8 x 24,5 cm, 176 pages, 170 images
4 colours, soft cover
ISBN 9789077207956
Legal deposit D/2021/09816/7
Hangar / Stockmans Art Books
Book design by Paul D’Haese & Joël Van Audenhaege
Signed on request - 39 euro
Released May 28th, 2021,
with the support of Hangar Photo Art Center
Limited edition - 20 copies only + 3 VIPS,
with laser-cut case, certificate
and 1 artist print of your choice 27 x 22,5 cm,
signed and numbered.
310 euro
“WINKS OF TANGENCY” - °2018
“The first contact with the photos of Paul D'Haese is surprising and fascinating: despite their inviting character they have something inscrutable. With their open spaces, their brilliant light, their soothing silence, these photos are indeed an invitation. We can not deny their beauty. The frame seems deserted, we get the impression of being able to walk there in peace, or perhaps we have ever walked there, in our minds. The surprise we experience seems familiar - Unheimlich Freud would have called it, but the experience runs smoothly without fear, without excessive restlessness. Yet they keep us at a distance and they seem far away and inaccessible: the countless walls or ruins, the trompe-l'oeils and dead-end alleys, the broken-off perspectives, the interrupted escape routes do not offer a concrete landmark, no support for the errant gaze. Are we in a hyperrealistic dream, a hallucination?”
Emmanuel d' Autreppe
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“WINKS OF TANGENCY” includes a selection
from my photographic work, from 2013 to 2018.
Printed and published
by Stockmans Calendars & Art Books.
Design by Atelier Sven Beirnaert & Paul D’Haese
Text by Francis Denys & Jean-Marc Bodson. EN / NL / FR.
Released December 16th, 2018
ISBN 9789077207604
Dim. 28,8 x 24,5 cm, 90 pages, 4 colours, soft cover
Stockmans Art Books
Signed on request - 35 euro
Limited edition - 20 copies only, with certificate
and 1 artist print 27 x 22,5 cm, signed and numbered.
200 euro
Make your choice from these 3 photos:
urbanautica.com about ‘winks of tangency’
bookreview @ Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, OKV2019/5
’Pas un chat’ @ Arts-Libre, Dec 2018
"dagblind" (DAYBLIND) - °2010
“Il y a des images aveugles, comme il y a des visages et des façades aveugles. Et tous ont "à voir" les uns avec les autres. Il est question, dans les photographies de Paul D'Haese, à la fois d'intériorité et de la pure apparence des choses. Quelques portraits, de face, yeux clos, alternent avec des "scènes" ou des paysages a priori classiques, attentifs au détail, à la netteté, à la nuance. Mais sous ces traits apparemment conformes, la construction de Paul D'Haese est également plastique et, peut-être plus encore, mentale : elle nous convie à la fois à une forme de contemplation, de méditation, mais aussi à un questionnement de ce que la modernité semble nous avoir enseigné, à travers la médiation mécanique de l'appareil photo, sur le lien entre la perception humaine et la complexité du monde visible.”
Emmanuel d' Autreppe
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Text by Carl Havelange & Erik Eelbode. FR / NL
Released March 2010
Yellow Now - Côté photo
ISBN 9782873402556
56 p. B/W & Colour, 28 x 24 cm, hard cover
Signed on request - 29 euro