Still Life? - PBF04 / Alice Pallot
15 November to 21 December 2019
Always searching for the mystical side of her subjects, Alice questions the footprint of the human being on his environment through the problem of Oasis blocks.
Alice Pallot’s work questions the relationship between the sciences developed by human beings and a natural environment in constant mutation. Throughout her researches, expeditions and experiments, her photographs become witnesses of a new and future era, of something mystic.
For PhotoBrussels Festival, she presents, with Botanical Agency (Elena Seegers and Simon de Dreuille) her new series OASIS. OASIS is the name of a company specialized in the manufacture of green plastic-based foam blocks. Used for floral design, they keep the flower arrangements fresh and moist and keep them in place. This substance is highly toxic and non-biodegradable. The foam decomposes rapidly into a powder that is a source of long-lasting, diffuse and aggressive pollution.
The series examines the paradigm between the beauty of the « eternal » flowers and the ugliness of an ecological disaster. At an age we must reconsider our techniques and choose how we want to engage in the biosphere, Alice Pallot thought that OASIS, as a set of immersive images filled with details, would help to focus and reflect.
