Signed, Katrien de BLAUWER (*1969) - Cheveux longes.... cheveux courts - 2019

Take advantage of the rare opportunity to acquire a signed copy of the strictly limited title 'Cheveux longs... cheveux courts' by the renowned Belgian photographer Katrien de Blauwer!

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Background information about the out-of-print, SIGNED photobook 'Cheveux longs... cheveux courts' by Belgian photographer Katrien de Blauwer.

About the prominent Belgian photographer Katrien de Blauwer (*1969)
Katrien de BLAUWER was born in the small provincial town of Ronse (Belgium) and moved to Ghent at a young age to study painting. Later, she attended the Royal Academy in Antwerp to study fashion, but she did not complete the program. During this time, she created her first collage books, which were essentially studies and mood boards for fashion collections. Later, she began collecting images, cutting them up, and reusing them — a form of therapeutic self-exploration.

She describes herself as a 'photographer without a camera.' She collects and recycles images and photos from old magazines and newspapers. Her work is both intimate, as it directly corresponds with our unconscious, and anonymous through the use of found images and cut-out body parts. In this way, her personal story becomes a story for everyone. The collage creates a kind of universalization by emphasizing the impossibility of identifying with a single individual while also enabling recognition within the broader narrative. The artist becomes a neutral mediator: without being the creator of the photographs, she appropriates them and integrates them into her own inner world, which she reveals in the third person.

Katrien de BLAUWER gives new meaning and life to the remnants by preserving images from destruction and integrating them into a new narrative that combines intimacy and anonymity. Her work fundamentally deals with memory—memory through accumulation rather than reduction. Her approach is reminiscent of photomontage or film editing techniques. The cut serves as a frame that highlights the essential.

The Belgian photo artist has published nearly a dozen photobooks to date, starting with 'I do not want to disappear silently into the night' (2014), followed by 'Stills' (2016), 'When I was a boy' (2018), 'Why I hate cars', 'Dirty scenes', 'Cheveux longs... cheveux courts' & 'I close my eyes, then I drift away' (all 2019), 'You could at least pretend to like yellow' (2020), 'les photos qu’elle ne montre à personne' (2022), 'Old Sweater Gets New Uses' (2024), and 'Blue bruises' (2025).

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The chapters of the out-of-print publication 'Cheveux Longs… Cheveux Courts' could be named after legendary French actresses we have dreamed of, but just as well after the unknown women we encountered on the streets of Paris or on a sunny country road, who took our breath away for a moment. They could all be Katrien. And that is exactly how I want to immerse you in 'Cheveux Longs… Cheveux Courts.' (free translation, Roger Szmulewicz, Gallery Fifty One)

Background information

'Long hair... short hair' is a series of works by the Belgian artist Katrien de BLAUWER. The Belgian artist processes her personal memories and emotions in a poetic and delicate manner through collages. She creates collages from magazine cutouts and paper scraps and is particularly known in Japan for her minimalist yet powerful and compelling style, characterized by fragmented depictions of faces and body parts. In addition to simple collages, she sometimes uses brushes to create distinctive shapes and colors. This results in a mysterious impression that, although the series of simpler, static images tells a story, it also feels like viewing stills from a film.

Content

The SIGNED band 'Cheveux Longs… Cheveux Courts' contains a small selection of works that was exhibited in 2019 at Gallery Fifty One in Antwerp, Belgium, and was published for that occasion. It is a beautiful collection of pieces that combine color and typography with fragments of female personalities.

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Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019 First and only edition.

Softcover edition without dust jacket (as published). 215 x 150 mm. 88 pages with over 50 photo collages. Includes an introduction in English.

On the preliminary note by Katrien de Blauwer, signed in thin black pen with full name, no date.