Haverford : The Past is a Foreign Country by François-Xavier Gbré

How is a country’s national story told through its architecture? When should the structures of the past be dispensed for the future? The Past is a Foreign Country is the first solo exhibition in North America by the Ivorian artist François-Xavier Gbré, whose photographs survey relics of the built environment, from the ruins of colonial-era monuments to the futurist symbols of the cosmopolitan city.

The exhibition features site-specific installations of immersive wallpaper prints and a chronicle of more than fifty buildings and civic structures throughout West Africa and France. United by a methodical, often distanced perspective on architecture and landscape as a form of documentary evidence, Gbré’s images summon the personal experience of public space and the social aspirations encoded in concrete, rebar, clay, and dust.

_EXHIBITION
_{The Past is a Foreign Country by François-Xavier Gbré}
_{August 28th – October 9th, 2015}
_{Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery}
_{Whitehead Campus Center}
_{Haverford College}
_{370 Lancaster Avenue}
_{Haverford, PA 19041}
_{(610) 896-1287

USA}