Artist Statement
The ongoing search for his own identity characterizes the artistic commitment of Vincent Delbrouck (aka V.D.). Through its initiatory journeys into Cuba (Havana) and the Himalayas, V.D. creates a flow of interconnections at the heart of intimacy, mixing real and fictional biography. Far from a road book, his work is a kind of new arte povera inside the autofictional process, the poetic narrative of a life written to the rhythm of nature, chaos, and pure empathy. Exploring photography with hybrid practices, V.D. combines his archives (pictures, diaries, letters, collages, short stories, poems, real objects...) to create vivid installations and artist's books. “These diaries document Delbrouck’s journeys and life in which his persona as an artist is hardly distinguishable from his ‘private’ self.”(Katalin Timar, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest)
Process Statement
V.D. (born Brussels, Belgium, 1975), was one of the DISCOVERIES OF THE MEETING PLACE in Fotofest Houston 2006. His first book Beyond History (Havana 1998-2006), was a FINALIST FOR THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in RIP d'Arles 2009. He received the Memorial Giacomelli Prize (Italy, 2002), the Jean Salgaro Prize at Photo Museum in Charleroi (Belgium) and the Vocational Bursary (Belgium, 2003).
His work was exhibited in Mexico DF (Centro de la Imagen), Houston (Fotofest 2008), Charleroi (Museum of Photography), Groningen (Noorderlicht Festival), Paris (nofound fair), Bienne/Biel (PhotoforumPasquArt), Krakow (ZPAF i S-ka gallery), Cuenca (PhotoEspaña), Dali (Dali Photo Festival, China),Lyon (Septembre de la Photographie),...
and is included in prestigious collections such as those of the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (the Joaquim Paiva collection), and the agnès b. Art Collection.
V.D. is one of the two founders of the WILDERNESS project an was a member of the Belgian collective BlowUp.
He lives in Loupoigne in the Belgian countryside, and he also practices Shiatsu (therapeutic massage).