In the spotlight ︎France | 5th Oct to 15th of Dec 2024 ︎
Concept
In 2022-2023, Spanish artist Borja Larrondo will be in residence at the CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, where he will meet almost 200 young people in northern France.
Composed of photographs and video portraits, the Kids on the Block exhibition is a portrait of youth. A story about the beauty and difficulty of being a teenager today.
The exhibition offers a universal vision, a melody of this adolescence through the territories traveled by the artist. Countryside, industrial and mining sites, urban spaces from Flanders to Porte du Hainaut, from Roubaix to Dunkirk, Borja Larrondo captures the essence of a territory and a youth.
Technical Data Original title: Kids on the block. ‘État de la jeneusse’
Project: Kids on the block
Where: Exhibition in Espace Croisé [Centre d’Art Contemporain]. Fr
Dates: 5th Oct to 15th of Dec 2024
Curators: Audrey Hoareau / Laura Menè / Borja Larrondo
Texts and Images: Borja Larrondo
Design: The Kids Are Right
Lab: La troupe
Original Language: French, English
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Project: Kids on the block
Where: Exhibition in Espace Croisé [Centre d’Art Contemporain]. Fr
Dates: 5th Oct to 15th of Dec 2024
Curators: Audrey Hoareau / Laura Menè / Borja Larrondo
Texts and Images: Borja Larrondo
Design: The Kids Are Right
Lab: La troupe
Original Language: French, English
Approach
A work that seeks to understand and describe the multiple layers that make up its reality: an unchanging territory anchored to its mining echoes, a post-indus- trial and commercial drift, a reserved domestic space, a vast natural space, a complex national and international political climate, and finally a dehumanised public space. A compilation of places that in itself evidences the metaphor of the “elephant in the room”. That problem, the youth and their volatile and uncertain future, understood by those who take control of their lives. That space of risk that they continue to avoid attending to. Where perhaps it is time to raise our voices and say “what do we do with this” or rather... “from now on? from now on”.
With a classical form in its aesthetic language, the project seeks to provide a universal vision, a melody, a lullaby that speaks about the “state of youth”. About fitting in, about the loss of beauty, about leaving behind that which differentiates us, that which is genuine, to build social roles, searching sooner rather than later for a place, their place, in an increasingly confusing and hostile world.
Awards & Grants
An artistic residency promoted by CRP [Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France] [https://www.crp. photo/] under the direction of Audrey Hoareau and the presidency of Marion Hislen + Diagonal [Reseau National des Structures de Diffusion et de Production de Photographie] [https://reseau-diagonal.com/] + Espace Croisé [Centre d'Art Contemporain] [https://espacecroise.com/] under the direction of Laura Mené + Institut pour la Photographie.
Nominated for Star Photobook Dummy Award.