Born: 25th of October 1974 (AKA the day of the substantial form) as Frank Luc Jan Paemeleire
Working from Oostakker (Ghent, Belgium) Frank Paemeleire has always had a large visual appetite. For him, photography is the art of observation and collecting. His practice roughly consists of two parts: the visual exploration of the local urban landscape and metaphotographic experiments. He devises a concept and then hunts for new images, selects them from his extensive archive or works with found or digitally constructed images. Paemeleire does not like to bother people with his camera. If there are people in his photographs, they are often anonymous or unrecognizable.
In the urban landscape, he is drawn to banal objects and non-places. He looks with fascination at how his fellow man diligently shapes his surroundings. Paemeleire is always in motion and photographs registratively. He usually works with a digital compact camera with flash. Flash makes him more visible as an author and creates a kind of hyperreality. By getting close to the subject or by tightly cropping afterwards, he isolates elements from their context, giving them a different meaning. Paemeleire also conducts all sorts of photographic experiments through which he tries to understand how the medium of photography and its interaction with the public works. These projects often balance on the border between photography and performance, again his ironic gaze is never far away. |
Group Exhibitions
[2023] Noorderlicht International Photo Festival (June, 13 - December, 10, Groningen, The Netherlands) Student Open Call 'REGENERATE' [2022] UNFRAMED/REFRAMED Parlor Ghent graduation exposition [2021] Noorderlicht International Photo Festival (August, 7- October, 7, Groningen, The Netherlands) Student Open Call 'The makeable mind' [2021] Davidsfonds Oostakker 'Oostakker anders bekeken' (August, 27-31, OCO Ghent, Belgium) Solo exhibitions
[2023] solo show in Maria Middelares Hospital (21/11/22-17/02/23) Books
[2023] 'We were having a great time in Arles until the hemorrhoids decided to show up' (together with www.nickmoonsmoons.com), shortlisted for the Book Awards of Les Rencontres d'Arles 2023 link [2022] 'Unconscious plagiarism' [2021] '365 quotes on photography': link (for sale) [2021] 'THE METACOLLECTION' link [2020] 'Just add photography' (free download): link [2019] 'FEEST!' (dummy): link [2019] 'I'm selling a wedding ring I no longer need' (group project): link |