Albert Pepermans
Sans Papier

For this tenth edition of PhotoBrussels Festival, Albert Pepermans presents his work under the title Sans Papier. The exhibition brings together the eponymous series with the recently completed Journal Bruts.

Pepermans uses photography in an unorthodox way: not as a photographer, but as a visual artist. In Sans Papier (2012), he photographed his own black-and-white drawings in a photo booth, resulting in layered triptychs that reveal the stages of the making process while the image becomes increasingly abstract. Photography functions here as a material and intermediary, rather than an endpoint.

Started in 2013, Journal Bruts is based on personal snapshots that Pepermans transforms into an experimental visual diary. Black-and-white photographs on plexiglass are combined with painted canvas and handwritten titles, allowing image and painting to reinforce one another.

Together, both series reveal a practice in which photography, graphic work, and painting merge into a distinctive, process-driven visual language.