Podcast – Forum Talks

Forum-Talks is the new podcast series hosted by Photoforum Pasquart and Ursina Leutenegger. The podcast introduces artists and thinkers in the field of photography that have inspired the programme of Photoforum, giving insights into their research, work and photographic vision. The different episodes feature the invited protagonists who provoke social change through photography, employ exciting practices that expand the form, and critically explore the role of images in visual culture today.

For the 4th episode Ursina Leutenegger talks with Emmanuel Van der Auwera, a Belgian artist who’s work challenges the self-evident nature of found documentary images. His photographs, films and video installations use polarising visual material circulating in digital spaces, addressing the ethical responsibility in dealing with images of violence and collective trauma. In regard to the recent school mass shootings in the USA, the works on display are frighteningly topical. They can be read as a plea for a critical approach to mediatised depictions of violence. At the same time, they provide a fascinating insight into the merciless kaleidoscope of the digital image flux by questioning our visual literacy: How do images of contemporary mass media operate on various publics and to what end? Where is the borderline to voyeurism? Which images do we trust and why do they go viral?

Emmanuel Van der Auwera (*1982, BE) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany) or Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). Recent solo shows comprise presentations at HEK (Basel, Switzerland) 2022 and at Botanique (Brussels, Belgium) 2019.

Cover: Detail of the photograph of a bullet looking like a flower, part of the Full Alice-Series shown at Photoforum Pasquart.

Link to the podcast

Flare Magazine

© Dominic Nahr, South Sudan, Bentiu, 2015

Flare is a Printmagazin (2016-2017) and a digital platform (tumbler, 2016-2019 & Medium, 2020) developed with the aim to expand the exhibition rooms of Photoforum Pasquart. It aims to provide links between the digital, the print and the exhibitions through collaborations with photographers and professionals from various backgrounds.

A selection of texts written on the occasion of our exhibitions and research is now available on Medium.

In the first print edition of Flare, four photographers and five authors deal with different aspects of drawing boundaries and exploring spaces in between.

In the second print edition of Flare, we invited four artists, one author and two scientists to contribute essays, essays and poems for this issue. Family and community, especially their social and artistic manifestations, are in the focus.