Showcase New Hero.in.es

Courses and workshops

New Hero.in.es is a long-term project by the Troubled Archives collective. In collaboration with photographer Silvano Magnone and a changing line-up of guests, it uses portraits and archive materials to explore heroism throughout history and how we might redefine it today and for future generations.

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To mark the exhibition An infinite woman, Troubled Archives invited Brussels-based artist Agnès Lalau as its featured guest. Together with Magnone, she gathered a group of people for an intimate workshop on collodion photography.* During this session, participants took portraits of one another and discussed heroism, identity and the stories we preserve. The resulting images have been combined with portraits from the Troubled Archives collection, specifically cyanotypes or ‘blue images’ on glass, bringing together people from different eras as new heroes and heroines. Discover the portraits, alongside excerpts from the conversations recorded by BNA-BBOT, at this public presentation.
Troubled Archives is a Brussels-based artistic research collective that explores colonial photography, sound and historical power structures. It comprises Rokia Bamba, Brenda Bikoko, Loes Jacobs, Peggy Pierrot and Antje Van Wichelen. Silvano Magnone focuses on portrait and landscape photography and experiments with traditional and historical techniques, such as collodion photography. *a 19^th-century photographic technique in which images are produced directly onto a glass plate; also widely used in colonial photography