ultra chrome photo on matt Hahnemühle paper on aluminum with hanging profile
The setting for the new works by Louise te Poele is the nature reserve next to her birthplace, the Koolmansdijk in Lievelde. The area she once fled from, but returns now after many wanderings. This was mainly farmland. This soil has been excavated so that old, native seeds came to the surface and new 'old' nature has been developed. With her artwork, Louise wants us to look at the world around us with softer eyes, she wants to make us more aware of the beauty that surrounds us and how we could celebrate it even more. She does this by stretching reality to create new forms. She wonders: 'How stretchy is the world really?' According to her, as stretchy and flexible as the mind.