Recently, starting from the flesh and skin, she aims to come to an abstraction of the perishable bag in which we live. Transferring the soft barrier to stone is a true challenge. Leaving a careful selection of scratches, lines and remnants of the interventions intact, she creates works like ‘cuts’ in an imaginary landscape, in a parallel universe in which this landscape is a body.

The fragile beauty of her work is often associated with unheimlichkeit.

 

 

 

 

Chantal Pollier

https://www.chantal-pollier.com/

 

(1965) lives and works in Ghent (B). As a psychologist and an artist who works in the field of decay and collapse she has a deep interest in the dichotomy between beauty and disgust, in the physical appearance of the gradually disappearing, the beauty of the contemporary in a vulnerable and fragile society, always researching her themes in collaboration with scientists. Her work is exhibited in Belgium and abroad, besides her activities as curator of multiple art-science exhibitions.