Eva Wittocx
Tableaux of Drawn-out Time, a Conversation between Dirk Braeckman and Eva Wittocx
Dirk Braeckman, Koenig Books, 2017, 192 pp, softcover, 25,5 × 21 cm, € 39,5, ISBN 978-3-96098-115-2
Hubertus von Amelunxen
The Veil, Or a declaration of Love to an Absence - For Bendetta
Dirk Braeckman, Koenig Books, 2017, 192 pp, softcover, 25,5 × 21 cm, € 39,5, ISBN 978-3-96098-115-2
Douglas Fogle
Under the Skin
Dirk Braeckman, Koenig Books, 2017, 192 pp, softcover, 25,5 × 21 cm, € 39,5, ISBN 978-3-96098-115-2
Martin Germann
Sonar
Dirk Braeckman, Roma Publications, 2011, 384 pp, hardcover, 28,5 × 24,5 cm, Edition: 2500, € 55,-, ISBN 978-90-77459-67-6
Dirk Lauwaert
The Black Dew
Dirk Braeckman, Roma Publications, 2011, 384 pp, hardcover, 28,5 × 24,5 cm, Edition: 2500, € 55,-, ISBN 978-90-77459-67-6
Frank Vande Veire
Blind Auto-Reflexivity: Dirk Braeckman’s Light on Photography
A-Prior N-7, spring / summer 2002
– Suppose that there is a kind of vision which is not like ordinary vision, but a vision of itself and of other sorts of vision, and of the defect of them, which in seeing sees no colour, but only itself and other sorts of vision: Do you think that there is such a kind of vision?
– Certainly not.
– Plato, Charmides
Ce en quoi la conscience peut se retourner sur elle-même—se saisir, telle la Jeune Parque de Valéry, comme se voyant se voir—représente un escamotage.
– Jacques Lacan, Sém., livre XI
Isabelle De Baets
Dirk Braeckman: Photography as a Real Allegory
Leaflet to the exhibition z.Z(t). Volume I. (’94–’01) S.M.A.K., Ghent, 18 August – 18 November 2001
Erik Eelbode
(Conversation with Dirk Braeckman)
Dirk Braeckman: z.Z(t). Ludion, Ghent / Amsterdam, 1998
Is it really the role of an artist who is still active to talk about his own motivations? As a source, he is suspect. With a view to an ‘endangered’ future, it is probably preferable that art critics, in particular, should be mistaken.
– Marcel Broodthaers, 1975
Gregory Salzman
The Small and the Big of Dirk Braeckman’s Art
Espace Vox: Contemporary Photography #6, Montréal, February 2003
Cherry Smyth
Intimate Handling: The work of Dirk Braeckman
A-Prior N-7, spring/summer
We were. We are. We are one flesh with the night. In the passages, passages.
– Paul Celan, ‘Snow-bed’
Tony Godfrey
Painting Today
Painting Today, Phaidon, London/New York, 2009
Erik Eelbode
(Conversation with Dirk Braeckman)
Dirk Braeckman: z.Z(t). II, Ludion, Ghent / Amsterdam, 2001
One can, one does (I do) and one has to, at times, put words into the mouth of the work and/or take them out again.
– Marlene Dumas
