Jacques Charlier
I was working for a public projects office, the Provincial Technical Service in Liège – roads, sewers, waterworks, topography… In this reservoir of things and activities I found a contrarian response to what people were calling “everyday reality” and putting up for exhibition in galleries. I was dealing with everyday documents, which didn’t have the seductiveness of materials from the so-called urban landscape. The coldness of the professional documents was corrosive. As early as 1963 I had the idea of showing these photographic documents with their certificate of origin and purpose, but it was only in 1971 that the work was shown in MTL gallery in Brussels.
René Denizot, In: Galeries Magazine, Artiste: Jacques Charlier, pp. 91-93