WALL

Wall is a series of analogue black-and-white photographs that turns its attention to what isusually overlooked: the quiet and unremarkable fragments of wall and stone that peoplepass by without a second thought. These modest surfaces, weathered and cracked, carry the traces of boundaries: lines that divide, but also protect and defend. They mark limits, yet also hold the delicate memory of those who built, leaned against, or simply ignored them.

In these images, Harrie Nouwen searches for the subtle emotional resonance of such places. The stones, in their stillness, hold a tenderness that is easy to miss. Their loneliness reflects something profoundly human: the silent labour of carrying weight, of standing guard, of enduring time. By photographing them, Nouwen slows us down and invites us to see the quiet persistence and vulnerability within what appears solid and insignificant.

For Nouwen, these walls are not inert objects but companions. He recognizes himself in their surfaces, their fractures, their resilience. “I am that stone,” he says. Wall asks us to look again at what we usually step past, and to discover in the mute weight of stone a tenderness that belongs to all of us.