Sweet Bitter, 2013
“The universe that Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt reveals to us is not a happy one. If he does not travel the planet to bear witness to the pains of the world, if he escapes the fascination of war, drama and blood, it is clear that he does not make a pact with the world of privileges. He speaks to us about us. About our children, about our days, about our solitude, about our puffs of joy, about our tiredness, about the death that prowls around, about the curious way the earth turns, about the light that strangely cuts our silhouettes on the absurdity of the world. Interior/exterior landscape we no longer know, but the gaze is intense, we go deep into the universe described. The form holds solidly the point, it tells in images, with an exemplary economy of means, what long speeches do not manage to say. He gives us to see a world that is not quite square, of which he offers us a personal geometry. “(excerpt from Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, “Photo Poche”, no. 110).
“Through these highly contrasted black and white photographs of landscapes and animals, scenes of daily life taken in France, Romania, India, Belgium, Turkey and the United States, Michel Vanden Eekhoudt builds a narrative and gives us, once again, his emotional view of animals, which he always apprehends as a subject, as an existence. »
Jean-Christophe Bailly
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