Ways of Seeing
Exhibition at Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
By Sara Staunsager
Taking its cue from the art critic and author John Berger’s hugely influential essay on art criticism, the exhibition Ways of Seeing invites the viewer to explore the idea of visual culture differently through works by modern and contemporary artists, who re-configure our perception of the world. John Berger, who died at the age of 90 earlier this year, wrote that the connection between what we see and what we know is never settled, and that seeing is, at its core, a political act. As such, the exhibition confronts your own way of ‘seeing’ and, ultimately, changes the way you look at art.
Ways of Seeing presents 27 artists and consists of 70 works, spanning a variety of media by among others Alicja Kwade, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman, Jeppe Hein, James Turrell, and Mona Hatoum. The exhibition is curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, internationally recognized independent curators and academics, and the co-founders of Art Reoriented, a multidisciplinary curatorial platform based in Munich and New York.
NOTE: What you see online is but a way of seeing. I would strongly recommend you to go and see the original works at the luxurious Villa Empain in Brussels with your own eyes. That is truly an uplifting and inspiring way of seeing!
From 22 September to 18 February 2018
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