Geert Goiris

Fool's Gold. 2007. framed lambda print. 120 x 110 cm

Pools at Dawn. 1999. framed lambda print. 100 x 120 cm

Blast #6. 2001. framed lambda print. 100 x 120 cm

Liepaja. 2004. framed lambda print. 100 x 135 cm

Spitsbergen. 1998. framed lambda print. 100 x 120 cm

Ministry of Transportation. 2003. framed lambda print. 150 x 120 cm

When describing his photos, GEERT GOIRIS apparently speaks of "traumatic realism"; assigning to the word "trauma" its surgical meaning: Of a breaking point, not in the psychological sense of coping with an unresolved past, but as a short transitory glimpse of another reality. My images refer to familiar fictions.Simultaneously, they register authentic locations. The fusing of fact and fiction is precisely the fracture that I intend to conserve. I try to preserve viewpoints in all their perplexity by GEERT GOIRIS

GOIRIS lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium