De Witte Raaf #154, November - December 2011

Dirk Braeckman, Roma Publications, 2011, 384 pp, hardcover, 28,5 × 24,5 cm, Edition: 2500, € 55,-, ISBN 978-90-77459-67-6

Dirk Braeckman, Roma Publications, 2011, 384 pp, hardcover, 28,5 × 24,5 cm, Edition: 2500, € 55,-, ISBN 978-90-77459-67-6

A-Prior N-7, spring / summer 2002

– Suppose that there is a kind of vision which is not like ordinary vision, but a vision of itself and of other sorts of vision, and of the defect of them, which in seeing sees no colour, but only itself and other sorts of vision: Do you think that there is such a kind of vision?
– Certainly not.

– Plato, Charmides

Ce en quoi la conscience peut se retourner sur elle-même—se saisir, telle la Jeune Parque de Valéry, comme se voyant se voir—représente un escamotage.
– Jacques Lacan, Sém., livre XI

Leaflet to the exhibition z.Z(t). Volume I. (’94–’01) S.M.A.K., Ghent, 18 August – 18 November 2001

click doubleclick : The Documentary Factor, Walter König, Cologne, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Haus der Kunst, Munich, February 8–April 23, 2006

Dirk Braeckman: z.Z(t). Ludion, Ghent / Amsterdam, 1998

Is it really the role of an artist who is still active to talk about his own motivations? As a source, he is suspect. With a view to an ‘endangered’ future, it is probably preferable that art critics, in particular, should be mistaken.

– Marcel Broodthaers, 1975

Dirk Braeckman: Chiaroscuro, Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent, 2003

A-Prior N-7, #7 spring/summer 2002

Espace Vox: Contemporary Photography #6, Montréal, February 2003

A-Prior N-7, spring/summer

We were. We are. We are one flesh with the night. In the passages, passages.

– Paul Celan, ‘Snow-bed’

click doubleclick : The Documentary Factor, Walter König, Cologne, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Haus der Kunst, Munich, February 8–April 23, 2006

Painting Today, Phaidon, London/New York, 2009

Dirk Braeckman: z.Z(t). II, Ludion, Ghent / Amsterdam, 2001

One can, one does (I do) and one has to, at times, put words into the mouth of the work and/or take them out again.

– Marlene Dumas