"Shelter NPC 95a" - Limited Edition 1 of 15 Photograph

The image has been captured with a Ebony Camera Large Format Camera, color negatives 4x5 inches. TO OUR WILD CHILDHOOD_ Hélène Fresnel, associate professor, art critic IMMERSION IN THE HEART OF A PERSONAL ORIGINAL ADVENTURE. A SHARE OF THE CHILDHOOD IN EACH OF US. This experience resembles an original adventure that deeply and continuously questions us. As such, the forest of Pascal Demeester shelters the ‘infans’ that we once were, the child before speech, before civilization. Psychoanalyst Jean-Bertrand Pontalis defines [infans] as “one who taps into all ranges of sensations, images, confused yet mysterious perceptions...one that has not been dominated by language.” The photographs makes us feel that child which understands the world as an animal and views a domesticated exterior as irreconcilably distant and foreign. A FOREST SOMEWHERE IN OUR MEMORY The mist and blur reaffirm this situation, shrouding the forest clearing with a dream-like veil that transforms a horse into a ghostly apparition. The choice of using black and white also plays a role in that it facilitates a journey into memory. Tarkovski, through his filmography, suggests that memories don’t always retain colors. In this regard, Demeester’s work seems to tie in with the Russian filmmaker in that it allows us to relive original memories. THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD ? The hole-shaped framing even manages to place us, as observers, in a womb-like state, lodged in the deepest nooks of our forest mother. The pointed exterior doesn’t appear any less than a “concerning oddity.” What is familiar becomes a sudden cause of anxiety - to paraphrase a Freudian expression. The obscurity around the framed foliage and strangeness from different vantage points creates an impasse. This complexity enriches the artistic proposition. SO, IS THE FOREST OUR LAST REFUGE ? Each work celebrates it as a shelter, but it is a paradoxical shelter, one that is mysterious, never claimed, and always under construction. In a hypermodern world, nature seems to have become an eternal pursuit. Different plastic materials are a testament to the relentless pursuit of natural shelters: inks, crayons and charcoal drawings, structures made of melted wax, bronze, stone. The artist is prolific. He is currently working on shelter sculpture which will allow city-dwellers to recharge in a center of urbanity . For those of us confronted by city pressures, Pascal Demeester proposes a sensory return to nature, simplicity and finally, to ourselves.

Photography:C-type on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:31 W x 24.8 H x 1 D in

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