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Soft Cover. Zustand: New. Exhibition Catalogue. Text: Duch. 64 p.; b/w photographs; 21 x 27 cm. Charif Benhelima (b. 1967, Brussels), photo-artist lives and works in Antwerp. Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been long experimenting with Polaroid 600. Consumed by a sense of incongruence -as the artist early became orphan of a mixed couple- Benhelima embarked in a nine-year (1990-1999) photographic research on the feeling of being a foreigner, which later resulted in the tough yet poetic book 'Welcome to Belgium'. New York city was somehow a turning point in Benhelima s work, once he brought his documentary approach to the popular Polaroid 600 (camera and film). Living in that city for 3 years, he developed the unpaired and far most accomplished work made with an amateuristic Polaroid, Harlem on my mind. Divided in two series, I Was, I Am and Projections purposely presented in Ilfochrome and greater formats - is a reflection of the black Americans situation in the artist s life. In 2003 Behelima participated in the artist residence program at Cite Internationale des Artes, Paris (Fr), where he continued working with the instantaneous film in the "fake document" (so-defined by the artist) project Semites". Part of a long and layered process and important issue of Benhelima s oeuvre - this work that is led by his own Arab and Jewish background deals with a more conceptual approach. Benhelima is granted with The Künstlerhaus Bethanien, artist residence Program 2005, Berlin, (G). Nominated for for the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography 2008 (Harvard University/Peabody Museum), Benhelima s diverse aesthetic, formal and conceptual research compose nevertheless a coherent and singular oeuvre. Book.

Soft Cover. Zustand: New. Exhibition Catalogue. Text: Duch. 64 p.; b/w photographs; 21 x 27 cm. Charif Benhelima (b. 1967, Brussels), photo-artist lives and works in Antwerp. Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been long experimenting with Polaroid 600. Consumed by a sense of incongruence -as the artist early became orphan of a mixed couple- Benhelima embarked in a nine-year (1990-1999) photographic research on the feeling of being a foreigner, which later resulted in the tough yet poetic book 'Welcome to Belgium'. New York city was somehow a turning point in Benhelima s work, once he brought his documentary approach to the popular Polaroid 600 (camera and film). Living in that city for 3 years, he developed the unpaired and far most accomplished work made with an amateuristic Polaroid, Harlem on my mind. Divided in two series, I Was, I Am and Projections purposely presented in Ilfochrome and greater formats - is a reflection of the black Americans situation in the artist s life. In 2003 Behelima participated in the artist residence program at Cite Internationale des Artes, Paris (Fr), where he continued working with the instantaneous film in the "fake document" (so-defined by the artist) project Semites". Part of a long and layered process and important issue of Benhelima s oeuvre - this work that is led by his own Arab and Jewish background deals with a more conceptual approach. Benhelima is granted with The Künstlerhaus Bethanien, artist residence Program 2005, Berlin, (G). Nominated for for the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography 2008 (Harvard University/Peabody Museum), Benhelima s diverse aesthetic, formal and conceptual research compose nevertheless a coherent and singular oeuvre.