Geprojecteerde gevoelens tegenover iets of iemand / Projected Feelings Toward Something or Somebody , 1974
Photography
© Estate Hugo Roelandt
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Donated by Estate Hugo Roelandt, Antwerp (Inv. no. S0575_0009).
From the beginning he [Roelandt] wasn’t interested in traditional narrative art photography, but in manipulating the reality in front of the camera. In 1974 he made a remarkable series of self-portraits entitled Feelings, in which he photographed his own face expressing, often in an exaggerated manner, a wide range of emotions. Around the same time he also made a series of photographic self-portraits in which he adopted, dressed in women’s clothes, provoking and seductive postures. These early examples of what we would now call ‘transgender awareness’ were made more or less simultaneously with self-portraits in drag by artists like Jürgen Klauke (whose work Roelandt knew thanks to Roger D’Hondt of the New Reform Gallery). But they also refer to the procession of the ‘Voil Jeanetten’ (men in women’s clothing) during the carnival in his home town of Aalst – a carnival he attended every year of his life. (Marc Holthof, 2016)
Add to your list“At the time I made photographs, but I refused to photograph what was in front of me, what is out there. What interested me was to change in a very conscious way certain situations and to record this. Photography was a suitable medium for that. In the long run changing things became more important than photography itself and thus it is a small step to turn to 'live' events. (…)” — Interview with Hugo Roelandt by Luc Mishalle, in CET-Bulletin, 1980, nr.5, p. 4 - 6
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Artist
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Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt — The End Is a New Beginning. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 February 2025 - 25 May 2025.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part III. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 September 2017 - 12 November 2017.
> Exhibition: Let's Expand The Sky – in Colour. Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerpen, 18 June 2016 - 30 July 2016.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna. Stad Geel, Geel, 15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018.
> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt — A Choice from the Archive. M HKA, Antwerp, 09 February 2018 - 29 April 2018.
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> Ensemble: Hugo Roelandt — BODY & SELF PORTRAITS.
> Ensemble: Fluid Body.
> Ensemble: GEWELD | VIOLENCE.
> Ensemble: Middle Gate.
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>Hugo Roelandt, Fotowerken / Performance Projekt - Photo Works / Performance Project, 1974.Photography.
>Hugo Roelandt, Bolero, 1974.Object, plaster, textile, 52 x 39 cm.