FRANS BEERENS
Alain Declerq
Carolein Smit
Claudy Jonstra
Frans Beerens
Hannes Wallrafen
Jan Banning
Jehoshua Rozenman
Julia Aurora Guzmán
Juliane Hundertmark
Martine Feipel &
Jeam Bechameil
Max Kraanen
Morad Bouchakour
Ophélie Asch
Robert Polidori
Ruben Terlou
Simone Hoang
Susanne Ring
Tilman
Yves Marchand &
Romain Meffre
Guest Artists
Anneke Eussen
Caroline van den Eynden
Katleen Vinck
Patrick Koster
Taxus England
Bestrating Rio Tinto
Raam Blascaod Mori
Haven Antwerpen
Treinstation Zlinn
Ingang Castelo Portugal
Kas Overmoigne
Bevroren Beek Ardenne
Fjord Noorwegen
In Beerens’ oeuvre, nature, organic objects and desolated places always play an important role. Discovering photography while making the book Slakkensporen (2005), Beerens started to document 'objets trouvés' in detailed photos, with specific attention to light and texture. From there he began to make a photographic inventory of abandoned places inter alia, an industrial area near Antwerp, a station in the Czech Republic and derelict nature around Europe. Time has made these places grow in their own particular way, and slowly disappear from the contemporary world. In his trips through Europe, Beerens searches for such places and captures them in negative film. Using these negatives, the material photographs are then woven together in Tilburg.
With his material photography Frans Beerens creates a sense of materiality and depth that he felt was lacking in regular photography. The work exemplifies the contemporary blurring of borders between the arts, and introduces a new genre in which decorative art and photography overlap.