Eddie Bonesire : Information

Born in Ghent in 1956, he lives in Ixelles, where he’s sometimes seen talking to the bust of Julio Cortazar. Being an interpreter and translator, he has been doing his utmost best for the last twenty years to conformingly reproduce words or writings of a more or less short-lived nature. One day he started writing down his very own words, however without constantly proving the need of inventing stories, because everything is there already, you just have to look around and listen to the mumbling of life. In his writing he likes to reshuffle some expressions so now and then, pushing away the syntax like you would move, with the back of your hand, objects that have been too long in place, just to have some space. In 2006 the publisher “Talus d’approche” published a fictional story “One day it will be night”. His other language is that of photography, that he practices with the same intensity and the same joy. “As a matter of fact, my experiences with colours and forms started with abstract painting exercises on cloths. After that I focused on photography. I primarily try to present balanced and stripped compositions, that only combine a limited number of elements. The real thing, its look and its perception are merely placed in each other’s prolongation.” The equipment used isn’t very sophisticated and all pictures are taken with available light. Influences? Undoubtedly the Bauhaus studies on colours, shapes and contrasts and the photography of Franco Fontana in the seventies. (Eddie Bonesire, transl. Frans Wiggers)