Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / AUGUST 2022<br />
Stefanie Schaut<br />
Belgium<br />
www.stefanieschaut.me<br />
About<br />
Stefanie Schaut (1990) is a visual artist living and working in<br />
Belgium. She studied at Luca School of Arts with a master<br />
degree in Fine Arts, Photography. She’s part of VONK<br />
Ateliers back in Belgium and has recently been selected<br />
as a ‘Fresh Eyes’-talent 2022 supported by GUP Magazine.<br />
Currently she’s working on a personal project together with<br />
Bieke Depoorter and other photographers, supported by<br />
BREEDBEELD. Her work has been published in magazines<br />
and expos throughout the years.<br />
Stefanie Schaut wants to break taboos through her work.<br />
Nature plays a central role in her photography. She finds<br />
inspiration and frustration in the way we live in the world.<br />
We are overwhelmed by stimuli and forget our identity and<br />
relationship with society.<br />
The aim of her images is to confront the viewer; to let the<br />
viewer turn inwards in order to reflect on their being. In her<br />
photography she creates a distance from reality. The slow<br />
nature of her photography symbolizes the way in which one<br />
should look at the images - intimately and silently. She is<br />
looking for a visualtranslation of the invisible emotional world<br />
of man.<br />
La Que Sabe (working title)<br />
This project seeks to find a common factor between ‘Mother<br />
Earth’ and the oppressed woman in our society. It is a<br />
start-up project in collaboration with Bieke De Poorter and<br />
Breedbeeld Traject 4. Nature has long served man instead of<br />
man serves nature. It is exploited and dominated by man. By<br />
thus, the image in our society is created that we are separate<br />
from nature or even more, stand above nature.<br />
The images in this project are inspired by the book ‘Women<br />
Who Run With the Wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. This is<br />
a book I found and read during my stay in <strong>Arteles</strong> Creative<br />
Center.<br />
Quote book:<br />
“Wildlife and the Wild Woman are both endangered species.<br />
Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature<br />
looted, driven back, and overbuilt. For long periods it has<br />
been mismanaged like the wildlife and the wildlands. For<br />
several thousand years, as soon and as often as we turn<br />
our backs, it is relegated to the poorest land in the psyche.<br />
The spiritual lands of Wild Woman have, throughout history,<br />
been plundered or burnt, dens bulldozed, and natural cycles<br />
forced into unnatural rhythms to please others.”<br />
During my stay, I got a chance to photograph the female<br />
artists and women who worked in this center (I now call them<br />
friends, since we bonded quiet a bit). I photographed them in<br />
a natural setting to undertone the importancy of the wildness<br />
in women. Seeing this as a positive thing, rather than a<br />
negative one – it’s a way to break the patriarchy.