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T.A.-H.O.-96, 120 x 180 cm, gelatin silver print, © Dirk Braeckman, Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Dirk Braeckman
Feb 01, 2018 - Jouk Oosterhof
The biggest wall in my house is reserved for this work, though secretly any work of Dirk Braeckman will do. For now I choose this one because there is too much to see. He states: “I can only get a good shot once I’ve taken everything in.” I feel he did take everything in. I don’t even have one question about this work. For me it’s completely related to the wisdom of my Dutch hero Wim T. Schippers. This is what he said: “Why does it always have to be about something, a tree is not about something. It has its effect.”