Hélène Binet: Dialogues

In her exhibition at the Bauhaus Archiv Binet establishes relationships between her photos of buildings by well-known architects and her photos of another building or a landscape.

Hélène Binet: Riverside Museum of Transport, Glasgow (United Kingdom), 2011 © Hélène Binet

For over 25 years now, the photographer Hélène Binet has been at work around the world, using her camera to capture the architectural work of internationally known architects, such as John Hejduk, Ludwig Leo, Le Corbusier, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid.

Her predominantly black-and-white photographs are characterised particularly through the precise effects of light and shadow within the architectural space. Binet shows structures and material, forms and geometries in such a way that something entirely independent emerges, something that goes far beyond a pure reproduction of the buildings.

Hélène Binet: Zaha Hadid, Maxxi Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rom (Italy), 2009 © Hélène Binet — **Top**: Hélène Binet: Riverside Museum of Transport, Glasgow (United Kingdom), 2011 © Hélène Binet. **Above**: Hélène Binet: Zaha Hadid, Maxxi Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Roma (Italy), 2009 © Hélène Binet

In the exhibition she juxtaposes shots of different buildings by famous architects or contrasts them with landscape photographs. These dialogues emphasise what is specific to the given architecture and simultaneously open up multi-layered associative possibilities for their viewers. The exhibition has been realised in cooperation with the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Hélène Binet: Atacama Desert, Chile, 2013 © Hélène Binet

Left: Hélène Binet: Observatory, Jaipur (India), 2002 © Hélène Binet. Right: Hélène Binet: John Hejduk, Housing, Berlin, 1988 © Hélène Bine

Left: Hélène Binet: John Hejduk, Housing, Berlin, 1988 © Hélène Binet. Right: Hélène Binet: Le Corbusier, Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, Eveux, (France), 2007 © Hélène Binet

Left: Hélène Binet: Ludwig Leo, Circulation Tank of the Hydraulics Laboratory, Berlin (Germany), 2014 © Hélène Binet. Right: Hélène Binet: Le Corbusier, Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, Eveux, (France), 2007 © Hélène Binet

until September 21, 2015
Hélène Binet
Dialogues
Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
Klingelhöferstr. 14, Berlin

Hélène Binet: Dialogues

In her exhibition at the Bauhaus Archiv Binet establishes relationships between her photos of buildings by well-known architects and her photos of another building or a landscape.

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