Brave Spaces
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Bertrand Cavalier (b.1989 France) explores the interactions between people and their environment. Exploiting photography’s ability to penetrate the tissue that binds individuals together and embeds them into their surroundings, he creates poetic renditions of singular moments, rather than objective documents of social phenomena. Cavalier’s images reveal how the socio-political order informs everyday life through architecture and the urban landscape. At the same time, however, his interest goes out to the process through which people restructure the space they navigate and make it their own. As such, his photography attests to those aspects of everyday life that creatively appropriate dominant ideology and in doing so, resist it.
Cavalier's series ‘Concrete Doesn't Burn’ has been published in 2020 by Fw:Books. In 2019, he received the Sébastien Van der Straten fund for his ongoing project The Grid System. His work has been published with Art Press, American Suburb X and C4 Journal among others. In 2019, he participated to Plat(t)form at the Winterthur Photography Museum in addition to exhibitions at the FOMU Antwerp, FRAC Orléans, BredaPhoto and BIP Liège. In 2021, he started collaborating with the contemporary art gallery Tegenboschvanvreden, based in Amsterdam.