We would come to doubt everything.
And almost everyone would come to doubt.
‘The documentary photo project We would come to doubt everything… deals with Juan (Jan), a Brabant dentist who thirty years ago left everything behind to start a new life in the remote mountain village of San Sebastian de Garabandal in Spain. Juan de la Torre leads the life of a hermit and
has devoted himself to the ‘study of life’, immersing himself in books on religion, alternative philosophies, the falsification of history and conspiracy
theories.
Van Keulen visited Juan and took pictures of both the rugged, romantic mountain landscape around Garabandal and Juan’s daily life. By enveloping her subject, leaving openings in the image sequence and occasionally adding existing archive material to her photographs, the
photographer is able to create a portrait of a mysterious figure. Van Keulen stretches the limits of the documentary genre, and explicitly appeals to the viewer’s imagination.’ (Xander Karskens, 2008)
The work We would come to doubt everything. And almost everything would come to doubt. is a book and slide installation. For the book I asked artist/writer Nickel van Duijvenboden to write a short fiction. The story is titled Hohenau, after a village founded by German colonists in Paraguay. Van Duijvenboden wrote the story through loose associations with my photographs. Though reality and fiction share some parallels, the outcome is totally different.
Read here Verhaal met gaten, a lecture by Nickel van Duijvenboden about our collaboration for the book. (pdf, 12 pages, in Dutch).
Book - We would come to doubt everything. And almost everyone would come to doubt, 2008
11,5 x 18 cm / 328 pages / full colour / edition 500 / ISBN EAN 978-90-813733-1-9 / self-published
With a short fiction by Nickel van Duijvenboden entitled Hohenau. Graphic design: Adriaan Mellegers
Installation view We Would Come to Doubt Everything. And Almost Everyone Would Come To Doubt.
Slide installation with three synchronized slide projectors, size variable, duration 9 minutes, during Quickscan NL#01, Photography Now at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL) and the Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai (CN)
Installation view We Would Come to Doubt Everything. And Almost Everyone Would Come To Doubt.
Slide installation with three synchronized slide projectors, size variable, duration 9 minutes, during Quickscan NL#01, Photography Now at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL) and the Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai (CN)
