Charlotte Lybeer
Surname: Lybeer
Country of origin: Belgium
Subtheme: Society, On the run, Culture
Charlotte Lybeer (Belgium, 1981) is
a freelance photographer and teaches
photography at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts in
Art Academy and at the Higher Institute of
Fine Arts in
work has been exhibited in several other
European countries. In 2009, for instance,
she had a solo exhibition, Beyond the Final
Fantasy, in the Flemish Cultural Centre de
Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. Her work is
included in the collections of the Belgian
National Bank, the Flemish Parliament and
the
Lybeer’s projects have an encompassing
context: they show people escaping into a
stage-managed reality, in order to get away
from everyday life. She has photographed
small communities of rich Americans and
South Africans, for example, who have literally
fenced themselves off from the outside
world. In her photo series LARP, taking
a holiday from everydayness (2009) Lybeer
shows people taking part in Live Action
Role Playing activities, in which they come
to events dressed as self-invented characters,
inspired by games, films and fantasy.
Lybeer captures LARP participants, dressed
in their transforming outfits, in their everyday
environment. This creates a sharp contrast,
which tells us something about these
people’s identity.
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