For an anacrusis ten years may be a bit long but LhGWR has probably found itself cocooned in its gallery and wants to fly out now like a butterfly.
Of course that should be respected, but on the other hand it is a bit sad to see a good platform for photography go, as this is LhGWR’s last exhibition in its gallery.
It is sad because LhGWR like no other place in The Hague, and like just maybe a few other places in the country, has shown its audience what style is in contemporary photography.
Style in photography is not stylishness or an aesthetic hype; it is a way of finding balance in a chaotic world, basically by means of looking through a lens.
Photography, as such, is a reflective medium par excellence, both technically and philosophically.
In this last bow LhGWR shows works by ten of its artists with whom they have intensively co-operated through the years.
The works presented are by Karianne Bueno, Sarah Carlier, Pierre Derks, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Thomas Kuijpers, Lana Mesić, Krista van der Niet, Daan Paans, Marleen Sleeuwits and Nadine Stijns.
The exhibition lets the works speak for themselves without bothering much about names and titles (so i stick to that same principle in this case), but to regular visitors they will be recognisable or even familiar.
In the mean time i hope to see and hear more of future initiatives by LhGWR, maybe even in this village of pomp and rubbish.
© Villa Next Door 2018
Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and to LhGWR, Den Haag
Bertus Pieters
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