Leute Heute
2015
Installation
Within the context of Nightwatch, a nocturnal exhibition in “Fotomuseum Antwerpen” organised by AmuseeVous.
Inspired by August Sander’s “People of the 20th century” and also Hans Eijkelboom’s “People of the 21st century”, a question arose my mind:
in what kind of categories would you divide people nowadays, and what are the main characteristics of each of them ?
After polling these questions to several persons, I build up an archive in which I documented several subcategories of people, as seen through the eyes of a fictive, somewhat unworldly persona.
This archive consists out of typical attributes used by each category, lists of their features, notes taken on the streets, smells that are captured …
Photo credits: Vitalij Iarmolovitch
