Each year, FOMU [Photography Museum in Antwerp] invites ten emerging artists to be part of .tiff, a programme dedicated to supporting upcoming talent in photography. The selected artists represent a wide range of practices and perspectives, reflecting the diverse and dynamic landscape of photography in Belgium. After the exhibition at FOMU, the artists now have the opportunity to reach a different audience here, in a new context and setting.
Each artist presents a work of their own choosing. As a result, .tiff does not revolve around a single overarching theme, yet brought together, reoccurring threads appear. The works enter into a dialogue, revealing unexpected connections and shared concerns.
The jury this year consisted of Magali Elali (Founder of The Constant Now), Cale Garrido (Curator of the Triennale of Hamburg) and Youqine Lefèvre (artist and .tiff 2021 alumni), assisted by the FOMU team. The exhibition is curated by Muhiba Botan and Sonia Mutaganzwa. The scenografie is designed by Samyra Moumouh.
Chloé Azzopardi, with her imaginary objects crafted from natural materials, raises questions about technological progress and our vision of the future;
Téo Becher examines in his images the myth of a wild and unspoilt nature. His work focuses on the province of Alberta in Canada, where the landscape has been shaped by colonial history and oil extraction;
Aliki Christoforou explores the Mediterranean Sea as a living archive in which climate change and colonial legacies are intertwined;
Yaqine Hamzaoui has an intuitive practice that begins with photography but transcends the boundaries of this medium. Her work takes the form of a personal and creative diary that also incorporates texts, drawings and textile pieces;
Tatjana Huong Henderieckx seeks, through her work, to reconnect with her biological family in Vietnam and to understand what it means to ‘return home’;
Simen K. Lambrecht explores how military power shapes and conveys masculinity, and what lies behind this narrative;
Tom Lyon challenges dominant representations of migration in his work and lays bare the dehumanising nature of the European Union’s border policies;
Natalie Malisse shows how domestic spaces bear the traces of our emotions and memories, where traces of trauma coexist with small acts of healing;
Anthony Ngoya traces, through family archives, the legacy of extraction, from the landscape between the Congo and Antwerp to the body and memory;
Darwin Taday Cabrera explores, through his family history, how identity is shaped by national ideologies, gender roles and family structures.