The parental home of photographer Karin Borghouts was destroyed in a fire. The photos continue to stir emotions. Despite feelings of chaos, destruction and irrevocability imposed by the charred interior after the fire, Borghouts becomes fascinated by the beauty of the devastation left behind. Faced with these conflicting feelings Borghouts starts to capture the house carefully. Rarely a subject emerges so unexpectedly, so disturbing, yet so obvious to a photographer like this event. Her intuitive decision to take photos at that moment, under these circumstances, has led to an extraordinary and moving series of images. The poignant but at the same time beautiful images are brought together in The House, an exhibition with beautiful black colourprints on mat Photo Rag paper.
This special exhibition can now be seen in Antwerp for the first time and a new book will be published.

THE HOUSE / HET HUIS
Karin Borghouts

Opening during Antwerp Art Weekend.
Thursday May 13 (holiday): 12 am - 9 pm
Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday May 16: 12 am - 6 pm

May 13 - June 12, 2021 open on Friday and Saturday 2 - 6 pm

BEHIND BARS - art space -
Otto Veniusstraat 18 (inbetween Leysstraat and Meir) - 2000 Antwerp Belgium

On the occasion of the exhibition in Antwerp, a new artist's book THE HOUSE appears, with a number of well-known but also never before shown photographs.
The book is available in the exhibition and online.

THE HOUSE
94 pages
Softcover and Swiss binding, black on the edges
24 x 30 cm
57 photos from Karin Borghouts
Graphic design by Jean-Michel Meyers
Text in Dutch, French and English by Eric Min and quotaties by Paul de Moor from 'Mijn huis dat was'.
SNOECK Publishers
Printed by Graphius in Belgium
ISBN: 978-9-4616-1674-6
Release: 13 May 2021

BOOK: 32 euros

This book is the first (KB 1) in a new series in which Karin Borghouts will look back on her photographic work of the past 20 years.

SPECIAL EDITION with print: 195 euros
A signed and numbered book (45 books) with a signed and numbered archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper

32 x 38 cm (24 x 30 + 4 cm white border)
Choice of 3 prints, only 15 copies per print
Look below.
1. Pot
2. Corridor
3. Bedroom

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