Je crois aux nuits

Biographie

Pierre Liebaert (°1990, Mons) is a belgian photographer currently based in Brussels, Belgium. He graduated from l’École Supérieure des Arts de l’image « Le 75 » in Brussels. His series, Macquenoise, was published by the belgian editor Le caillou bleu. Very often immersive, his projects are often long-term and devour him. Although they are mainly photographic, his series Libre Maintenant builds itself around an installation composed of a film, images, music, audio recordings and texts. In 2021, the eponymous book, published by L'éditeur du dimanche, was shortlisted by The Book Awards in Arles. For his upcoming project Je crois aux Nuits, he explores territories where fragile traditions are still surviving. The series introduces the Carnival cycle, starting with the bear bursting out for Candlemas to a body covered with ashes.

Présentation

With this series devoted to very specific carnival rituals, Pierre Liebaert's work continues to walk on the edge of the abyss, looking at worlds that we know we have known for a very long time, and that we will never be able to circumvent with words, except those of the poem. When you go to an exhibition by Pierre Liebaert, you don't come away with information about an event or a news item, about a moment or a place: he doesn't document a subject, in the journalistic or academic sense of the term, but confronts that which has no name and yet designates us. He pushes our gaze away from what is comfortable and reassuring, towards the peripheries where what is in fact in the very midst of humanity emerges from the darkness.