Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument @MoCP

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Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument @MoCP

July 3rd, 2015 by fstop

Ana Vaz, Entre temps, 2012

Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument
OCT 15 – DEC 23, 2015

GEERT GOIRIS
IMAN ISSA
FLORIAN JOYE
NADAV KANDER
JAN KEMPENAERS
BASIM MAGDY
NICOLAS MOULIN
ANA VAZ

Monuments are deliberate gestures—objects or structures created to commemorate an event, person or era. Their meaning is usually imposed, and they often serve as vehicles for the communication of civic qualities like valor and duty, or to underscore a foundational political narrative. But their meaning can transform, changing over time as the relevance of their symbolism ebbs and flows due to social and political shifts. Like monuments, architecture and photography are also inflected with a grace of intention, and both have the ability to commemorate or represent a nation, event, time or place. Like monuments, their meaning often shifts due to time and context. Furthermore, the act of photographing monuments and buildings transforms them, sometimes revealing some of their original qualities and more closely evoking the responses that they were originally intended to have.

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