Contemporary Passages

Other than in the recent past, where moving was an exceptional experience and journeys were finite, today more people move for temporary periods of time and in multiple directions, driven by curiosity, material need or practical necessity. This creates a new complex geography where people with different perspectives, values and modernities repeatedly crisscross each other. In such a context, other forms of collectivity and ways of relating to space emerge, which require and shape new combinations of geographic distance and intimacy, physical proximity and knowledge and familiarity. Angela Serino,

Presentation of the complete Gestures archive at that moment as a slideshow and newly produced printed matter. Examples of these gestures are found in the way that elements are adapted, concealed, demonstrated, mirrored, constructed, and so on. I systematically photographed how such modes of spatial organization could be investigated as gestures made to organize, maintain, or sometimes disrupt a certain order in our lifeworld. The focus on gestures gave form to an archiving of autonomous places that would only in the greater collection of photos establish relations with other places and situations aournd the world.



As part of the presentation Julie Peeters designed and assembled an A0 poster that is free to take. This poster is a selection of the archive (+/-110 images) relating to the idea of the contemporary passage. (edition of 600)  View the Poster (jpeg)