Thierry De Cordier and Anne Pontégnie | In Conversation | Xavier Hufkens

Thierry De Cordier discusses his exhibition, Passe⁠-⁠montagne, with curator, Anne Pontégnie in this new video.
“I simply strive to make things as clear and general as I can, so they resonate with as many people as possible. While my work may emphasise “the self”, it’s not about me; it’s about the self-you, anyone in the world.”
Simply put, his œuvre is a philosophy expressed in images. De Cordier’s worldview leans heavily towards Albert Camus’ concept of Absurdism, which describes the futility of searching for significance in an incomprehensible universe, devoid of either God or meaning. In other words, people merely exist. Or, as De Cordier says: ‘Inutile, l’homme est là à être là inutilement…’ [Useless, man is there just being there uselessly…].
Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954, Ronse, Belgium) might best be described as a non-academic thinker who makes things. His œuvre includes, but is not limited to, photographs, drawings, placards, paintings, sculptures, assemblages and bricolages. These ‘objects’ and ‘non-objects’, as he calls them, can be viewed as representations of his thinking. They visualize his ideas and, as such, are illustrative of them.
Anne Pontégnie is curator-at-large for Le Consortium (Dijon) and curator for the Cranford Collection (London). Prior to that, she was chief curator at Wiels (Brussels), an institution she founded together with Dirk Snauwaert. She curated numerous solo exhibitions with artists, such as Mike Kelley, Daan Van Golden, Kelley Walker, Edith Dekyndt, Roe Ethridge and Mark Leckey.
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