ad rem – Photographie als Technische Intelligenz
BelleVue – Ort für Fotografie
06.09 – 01.11.2020
Opening: Saturday, 5 September, 5 pm
BelleVue – Ort für Fotografie presents in cooperation with photo basel the exhibition ad rem – Photography as Technical Intelligence by the Swiss photographer Roger Humbert.
Photography is a special form of technical intelligence. As a technical invention, it contributes to the advancement of social development: It has made things visible that were previously inaccessible to the human eye, and at the same time has changed human perception forever. Roger Humbert has always been committed to the technical intelligence of photography in his work. He is well known for his wonderful photograms and experimental shots, which take light as such into account and make it the source of composition. Humbert has also taken photographs with a camera over decades of travel and everyday life, which are now being shown for the first time in a representative selection. Roger Humbert invites us on a world tour, takes us to France and Italy, to North Africa and China. In this exhibition his photographs can be discovered and with them a special world of light and the reality of things. “ad rem” leads us to the matter – and this matter is our reality of light, which here becomes a wonderful sequence of light pictures.
BelleVue – Ort für Fotografie
Breisacherstrasse 50
CH–4057 Basel