Memorials SLOFT while tracing its global spread

while tracing its global spread through Africa

l’excitation

Voyage au cœur de l'univers poétique des abrumes

ce projet de l'écrivain et commissaire d'exposition Lou Stoppard met en lumière les manières profondes dont l'image écrite et l'image visuelle peuvent s'informer et influer l'une sur l'autre

Part of an ongoing body of work

Memorials SLOFT while tracing its global spreadJan Kempenaers (BE, 1968), has photographed urban and natural landscapes since the mid 1980s. Between 2016 and 2025, he documented these brutalist war monuments of socialist Yugoslavia. Initially capturing large Spomeniksover twenty years ago, his early work highlighted their futuristic forms amidst historical ambiguity. Recently, Kempenaers returned to photograph countless smaller, local memorials across Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, North