BIP 2012: Images of Love

Venue details

Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain de la Ville de Liège (MAMAC)
Parc de la Boverie 3
B-4020 Liège
Belgium
T: + 3 243 430 403
www.mamac.be

Event details

This year’s BIP 2012 – the Liege International Biennale of Photography and the Visual Arts – will explore the multi-faceted theme of “Images of love, love of the image” which seven different exhibitions.

The main exhibition of BIP 2012 will be at the Mamac – the city’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Nan Goldin will hold an important place at Mamac, with a monumental projection of her major work: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Other photographers who’s work will be exhibited at the Mamac are: Erwin Olaf, Sylvie Blocher, Jason Lazarus, J.H. Engström, Eric Rondepierre, Elina Brotherus, Thomas Chable alongside many others.

“In the great game of seduction, looking plays a central role. Sensual pleasure and the stimulation of looking – rather like a voyeur – have never been very far apart. The eye is the motor of erotic imagination.This is perhaps why image and love have something to do with each other.”

For alot more on acclaimed photographer Nan Goldin featured by GUP, click here.