Isabelle Pateer's Unsettled (2007 - 2010)
The ongoing documentary series “Unsettled” focuses in a metaphoric way on the idea of “progress” in a case where living environment and heritage have to disappear because of industrial purposes.
Within this project this international tendency is illustrated by focusing on the Belgian village Doel and the surrounding polder area. The place is threatened by vast expansions of the port of Antwerp and related nature compensation plans, which installs an artificial contrast between nature and culture.
“Unsettled” illustrates this actual case in an indirect way, exceeding a pure documentary approach.
It shows portraits of young inhabitants alternated by landscapes which bare witness to the transformed state of the area. Leaving a sourish taste by contrasting the young with the local changes, they symbolize the international tendency of global political and economic shifts and the way they manifest themselves to the people and their surroundings.
Isabelle Pateer is a Brussels, Belgium based artist.
To view more of Isabelle's work, please visit her website.
Inconvenience, 2008
Desolation, 2008
Christoph, 2009
Before the flood, 2009
Robin, 2008
Car box, 2009
Bubble gum, 2007
Antonio, 2009
Refaire l'homme et la terre, 2008
Thierry, 2009
Backyard, 2009
Yessica, 2007
All is pink when I am blinded, 2007
The room #2, 2009
The room, 2007
Sabina, 2008
Natascha, 2007
Under Construction #1, 2006
Yannick, 2009
Couch, 2009
Untitled interior, 2010
Untitled, 2010