I am my parents’ eyes. 2008, exhibition by Douglas Vanherpe & performances at the opening of Alliance Française de Gurgaon, S-24/8, DLF Phase III, Gurgaon > 20th March-21st April 2012

Time : 
20th March : 
6:30 pm - Opening of the Exhibition
8:00 pm - Traditional dances and songs performance by Mauritius Students
21st March to 21st April : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Place : Alliance Française de Gurgaon, S-24/8, DLF Phase III, Gurgaon
Landmark : Near Neel Kanth Hospital
Venue Info : Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Guru Dronacharya(Yellow Line)'

Event Details : 'I am my parents’ eyes. 2008', exhibition by Douglas Vanherpe.
From Hervé Guibert (My parents) to Sophie Calle (Exquisite Pain)or Pascal Convert, contemporary art, through many different ways of expression, as literature, cinema or photography, has often been dealing with the theme of family, as a way to create a dialogue or to recreate a relationship with relatives. That is precisely the meaning of the selection of photographs entitled I am my parents’ eyes, explained by the artist Douglas Vanherpe in the following lines: “I have started taking pictures because I wanted to share my life with my parents as I have been living in different foreign countries.
I wanted to share what I was experiencing; I wanted to have them closer to me.
I wanted to become my parents’ eyes.
What started as something random became an obsession and my camera almost a part of myself.
Beauty lies in the simplest things.
Things we don't notice anymore in our daily lives.
We just walk by them only seeing the big picture and forgetting to look at the small details.
I left my country 17 years ago.
Since then I feel at home everywhere and a stranger everywhere else.
I have started to look at things as if I saw them for the first time, focusing more on details and
differences between cultures.
I shot this series in 2008.
They are a very small selection of the pictures I have sent to my parents that year.”

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