Peter Lindbergh’s off-camera moments, vanished Japanese worlds and an avant-garde 70s hotbed resurrected – highlights from Brussels Art Week
Hannah Lack
A cosmopolitan city where young artists can still afford to live and create, Brussels is “surrounded by big sisters such as London and Paris but brimming with a creative energy that is ferocious”, say Laure Decock and Evelyn Simons, founders of RendezVous Brussels Art Week, an annual celebration of the city’s art scene. This year, more than 100 venues, from members’ clubs to repurposed warehouses to artist-run spaces opened their doors for a packed programme of talks, workshops, screenings, live music and performances. Here’s our pick of three shows that unearthed some lesser told stories.
Lost and Found: Japanese Photography at the A Foundation, until 20 December
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, photographer Takahashi Munemasa began painstakingly salvaging, washing and cataloguing thousands of family snapshots pulled from the mud and ruins of Yamamoto City, matching and reuniting them with their owners. The most waterlogged and unidentifiable were consigned to a “hopeless box” that today makes up the first room of the...