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Look Who's Talking / Geert Goiris

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Look Who's Talking
11 02 2009 00:00 01:00

Geert Goiris

Geert Goiris does not make photographic records. His works are best described as photographic encounters. He endeavours the impossible: to seek the one-off moment.

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Geert Goiris

At best, this is something that just happens to a person. One bumps into it unexpectedly; its a gift. Very much like a hapax legomenon the linguistic concept referring to a word that is found only once in a continuous text. It could be said that the world that we are used to experiencing forms a kind of continuous text in space and time. That is where this unique experience occurs, suddenly and unpredictably; for one brief moment, the world speaks to us. In this sense, each of Goiris images is a hapax legomenon. The choice of subjects is definitely not arbitrary on the contrary, the interruption of the world is an exceptional event. He attempts to capture this extraordinary moment in a photograph even though the image can only capture its disappearance.

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