Paul D'Haese - Borderline: Online exhibition

  • Paul D'Haese - 'Borderline'

    2016 - 2020

    (Re)discover Paul D'Haese's iconic series in an online exhibition format presented by Hangar

         Paul D'Haese - Berneval from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
  • About the series 'Borderline'

    The northern French coast is marked by history: the Atlantic Wall, the liberation, the refugee camps. With this in mind, the artist investigates, in a non-documentary way, all kinds of interactions: the one between land and sea, solid and turbid, intern and extern, locked up and liberated. Paul D’Haese links these themes to the search for identity, with as an extreme case, the "borderline" personality disorder.
    Six years ago, he conceived, for the first time, the idea of ​​exploring this boundary line. He then followed a route, about 350 km as the crow flies, for four years. He crossed about fifty villages and towns, with his camera, first by car, then by bicycle, and finally on foot.

     As Jean-Marc Bodson puts it: "this work by Paul D'Haese, observing the French coastline, could {...} easily claim to be “anti-picturesque”. Indeed, the shots taken between Bray-Dunes and Le Havre constitute the perfect counterexample of landscapes worthy of being painted for their agreed beauty. Unlike depictions of idyllic nature, they persistently show us details of the triviality of the coastal regions that have been fundamentally transformed by modern life. {...} They form a contemporary tale that points out with humour – of which much is needed under the circumstances – the absurd side of an era in which we tend increasingly to view this coastline as a new “Atlantic wall”. It is a masterful visual tale, which we hope is not a premonition, about the desert that a country that closes itself off can become."

    The project obtained ‘Le Prix de la Ministre de la Culture’ - 18th PNPO, May 28th 2021 - Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi.be
  • All photos featured in the book Borderline are available as prints. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper,...
    Quend from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
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    All photos featured in the book Borderline are available as prints. 

    Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper, mounted on dibond with aluminum shadow box frame, available in the following formats:

     

    - 21.4 x 25.5 cm, edition of 10 - 850 euros
    - 42.5 x 51 cm, edition of 10 - 1500 euros
    - 90 x 107.2 cm, edition of 3 - 3500 euros
     

    Prices framed and 6% VAT included.

     

     

    Info and availabilities
    Paul de La Marandais
    paul.delamarandais@hangar.art
    0032 455 18 15 29

  • What Paul D'Haese photographs is reality, non-fiction, but how he captures that reality in images is fiction. For him, a...
    Ambleteuse from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
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    What Paul D'Haese photographs is reality, non-fiction, but how he captures that reality in images is fiction. For him, a blind side wall is never just a blind side wall, but an imagined side wall that looks hyper-realistic or even surrealistic.

     

    Patrick Auwelaert, The Art couch

     
  • Berneval from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
    Berneval from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
  • Ault from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
    Ault from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
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  • Leafing through Borderline you get to see dozens of photos that were taken on the northern French coast, often outside...
    MV from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
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    Leafing through Borderline you get to see dozens of photos that were taken on the northern French coast, often outside the tourist season. The photos all have one thing in common, and that is emptiness.

    The shutters lowered, the empty parking lots, the deserted streets, the beaches without tourists: they have an apocalyptic appearance, as if the population has moved across a 350 km long strip for an impending disaster.

  • Mers nacht from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
    Mers nacht from the series Borderline, 2016-2020
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  • About Paul D'Haese

    BE (Ninove) - 1958 / Lives and works in Ternat
    Paul D’Haese worked as an interior designer and then trained at the Photography Academy in Sint Niklaas and in Anderlecht....
    © Paul D'Haese

    Paul D’Haese worked as an interior designer and then trained at the Photography Academy in Sint Niklaas and in Anderlecht. He took a masterclass with British photographer John Davies. He had various exhibitions in Belgium including  at M Museum (Leuven), Musée de la photographie (Charleroi); Fusée de la Motographie (Brussels); Land van Waaslaan (Ghent)  and Hangar.

    In 2016, he was the winner of the Magnum Photography Award for Belgopolis and then for Building an imaginary city in 2017. In 2018, his series Stuffy shell is selected for the Sony World Photography Awards.

    His photos are published in the following books: Dagblind (2010), Winks of Tangency (2018), Borderline (2020) and his fourth publication Replica Falsifica, presented for the first time at Hangar in April 2023. 

    Exhibitions at Hangar : Borderline (2020)

                                           Replica Falsifica (2023)