Tracks
Sean Anderson, Aperture 227, June 2017
The Past is a Foreign Country
Brendan Wattenberg, September 2015
François-Xavier Gbré, photographe des traces de l’histoire
Sabine Cessou, RFI, November 2015
Armory show focus: African perspectives – interview for Aperture
Peter Barberie, March 2016
The Monumental Landscape: François-Xavier Gbré in conversation
Brendan Wattenberg and Emmanuel Iduma, Another Africa, August 2015
Photographier l’entre-deux, entretien
Érika Nimis, Africulture, Novembre 2013
Vous m’en direz des nouvelles, Jean-François Cadet, RFI, Novembre 2017
The Past is a Foreign Country
Published by Haverford College, 2015
95 pages, soft cover, 165 x 240 mm
Texts by Brendan Wattenberg, Emmanuel Iduma, Susanna D. Wing
The Past is a Foreign Country marks Gbré’s first solo show in North America. Commissioned as a site-specific installation for the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, the exhibition includes selections of photographs from series Gbré created between 2009 and 2015 in West Africa and France, whose disparate subjects are united by a methodical, often distanced perspective on architecture and landscape as forms of documentary evidence.
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Sogno d’Oltremare
MAN – Museo d’Arte provincia di Nuoro, 2018
48 pages, soft cover,165 x 240 mm
Texts by Luigi Fassi, Giuseppe Di Salvatore
The solo exhibitions by Dor Guez and François-Xavier Gbré illustrate some of the lines the MAN will be following in the near future, such as commissions for new works from artists and the intensive exploration of regional territory. From this standpoint, Sardinia represents an immense archive of Mediterranean research, making it a region able to interpret changes set to transform the face of the European continent in years to come. For artists who conceive their activity as a form of complex thought, the Mediterranean islands are particularly rich in inspiration, with their “layers of slow history” – to cite the historian Fernand Braudel – marking the present with the enigma of their age-old past.