Following my own expo Mystisch Land, Museum aan de IJzer set up an expo: “Joe English, from inspiring art to propaganda”. It shows the art of Joe English during WW1 and the evolution of that body of work towards the flemish nationalist propaganda of the interbellum. I designed the info-posters and helped Peter Verplancke, the museum’s conservator, to set up the scenography.
Project Tag: joe english
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Mystisch Land
In 2016 I started researching the whereabouts of Joe English during WW1 and consequently visited all these places. His get-away from the besieged city of Antwerp towards the Belgian coast eventually bringing him to Calais was one of the trips I attempted to do as he did, on foot. I described the research and the travels on a blog (in dutch) and presented the results at Museum aan de IJzer, from september 2017 to march 2018.
There’s two sets of pictures:
contemporary landscape photography shot on film with a Pentax67.
A set of cross-processed snapshots of subjects that survived 100 years of history.
