​​​Starting from an exploration of open views and panoramas as a societal function of communal contemptlation in public space I started filming the highest points of view in Paris. Searching for these openviews that would give peace to the nervous system, I mostly encountered the open views obstructed by natural elements.

 

‘Les palissades’ explores this as a way of nature reclaiming space in the humanmade cityscape. Nature, often relegated to the backdrop of a frame, became the foreground. Rather than framing the view, the barriers became the subject, shifting the act of looking into an exploration of what is hidden, unreachable, a view never fully attained.

 

This tension - between seeing and not seeing, between the city shaping nature and nature reclaiming space- becomes the central focus.

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in the frame of a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Supported by Flanders Department of Culture and Arts