Getting down to the nitty - gritty

Outlandish

Gare de la Chapelle | Brussels

14.01.10 > 28.02.10

EN: Photography exhibition developed by Outlandish in collaboration with Pierre Debroux...

...with: Bernd Kleinheisterkamp, Sara Claes, Bieke Depoorter, Jan von Holleben, Dana Lauren Goldstein, Jimmy Kets, Charles Fréger, Elspeth Diederix, Pierre Debroux, Wyne Veen, Anouk Kruithof, Sarah Van Marcke, Sarah Gerats, Jonathan Jacques

Outlandish - platform for young photography, is offered an exhibition space by Cultural Centre Recyclart for more then a year now. The space is located close to Quartier Les Marolles, in the Kapellenkerk train station, a place difficult to generate a large public since its located out of the larger urban axes of the centre of Brussels.
Paradoxically, though the neighbourhood of the station is little frequented, thousands of commuters are passing on the train tracks running straight above the gallery space. This was the main trigger to organise this extra-muros exhibition. And so Outlandish engages to encounter the public space and to enlighten the neighbourhood with a backlit system to expose a selection of photographs, mounted in an empty office building close to the tracks. The exhibition will be visible when the sun is down, in the morning and in the evening. The exhibition, titled 'getting down to the nitty-gritty', offers to the commuters on the north-south axe a moment of respiration and escape on the trip that brings them to work, school or wherever they need to be.

Sometimes playful, contemplative and open to multiple interpretations, the selected work questions the possibility to be creative with or to escape from the objects and actions from everyday life, the simple thing that really matters... the nitty-gritty...