BURNS - Carine Doutrelepont

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• BURNS - Carine Doutrelepont
• 2024-09-20T10:00:00+02:00
• 2024-11-10T18:00:00+01:00
• From 20 September to 10 November 2024

• • When Sep 20, 2024 10:00 AM to Nov 10, 2024 06:00 PM (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)
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From 20 September to 10 November 2024

Brûlures is Carine Doutrelepont's brand new exhibition. Why has she chosen this title, so revealing and mysterious at the same time? The intensity and fusion present in volcanic earth are strangely echoed in the Indian festivals of Holi and Divali, celebrating renewal or rebirth, the victory of good over evil, of light over darkness. 

The collection of photographs in this exhibition plunges us into the celebration of Holi, which marks the end of winter and celebrates the beginning of spring. The immersion that this work offers is punctuated by images of volcanic earth that blend in an extremely natural way with the explosions of colour that are characteristic of Holi. It's impossible to remain insensitive to the links between this religious festival and the lands immortalised by the photographer.

Brûlures is a poetic, lyrical photographic work exploring the experiences connecting Nature and human beings. This project is a true testament to human life, visible in both the movements of the Holi celebrations and the volcanic manifestations. The palpable intimacy that emanates from each of the photographs on display reminds us of the beauty of the world, by highlighting the fire that springs from the heart of the Earth and the human beings who inhabit it. By bringing us face to face with this intense show, Carine Doutrelepont reminds us that it remains essential to take care of our Earth, as well as ourselves and others, because, ultimately, human beings and Nature are one and the same.

The artist 

Carine Doutrelepont sees photography as a form of writing in which the image replaces words or accompanies them in silence. A transmission of a multitude of glances as well as a confidence in the intuition to push back the frontiers of the hidden or the invisible? 

For her, photography is also a way of tracing the paths through which she offers the public, free to move through worlds where the imaginary and the real weave the beautiful or tragic density of life. 

Attracted by nature and the diversity of human expression, she took up photography during her many travels around the world. 

It was through encounters, some of them symbolic, that she developed her creative work. "An explorer, she has found in photography a humanist way of celebrating the beauty and depth of the land and people whose presence and history she likes to recount or celebrate in her own way". 

She lives in Brussels, where she writes, teaches copyright at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and practises as a lawyer.