Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and Ives Maes are delighted to invite you to the finissage of Ives Maes' solo exhibition TROPES on the 15th of February. On this occasion, he will present his new publication, Ives Maes & David Campany in Conversation, with the publisher also in attendance. The book presentation will begin at 15:00. Guests who pre-order the book during the event will receive a signed copy.
In Ives Maes & David Campany in Conversation, Ives Maes discusses his doctoral research in the arts at Kask school of arts Ghent with David Campany, a jury member of his PhD committee.Focusing on the intersection of architecture and photography, Maes has designed biodegradable refugee camps, photographed the remains of world fairs worldwide, and recaptured his homestead memories in photographic installations. His research proposes that architecture is inherently part of the photographic medium, initiated by the camera obscura pavilion. Maes argues that world fairs came into being because of the invention of a medium that could authentically represent them, and he examines how this invention shaped architectural display strategies for photography.Throughout the book, Maes and Campany discuss their expanded practices and explore historical examples such as the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition in 1851, Charlotte Perriand’s Agriculture Pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition of Art and Technology, the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo 1970, and Simon Starling’s 2008 Plant Room for Kunstraum Dornbirn.David Campany, a renowned curator and writer, has had a long career in curating and writing about photography exhibitions, with a focus on exhibition history, scale, design, temporality, and the role of both still and moving images in the exhibition context.This publication is published by Art Paper Editions and was made possible with the support of the Kask School of arts, HOGENT Arts Research Fund and The Flemish Community, Department of Culture, Youth & Media.