Stef De Brabander (1970) lives and works in Ghent
The created image offers a renewed and personal rediscovery of the world. It reveals something of which no one was aware.
– Stef de Brabander
Imagination is the realm of passive observation of things. This disinterested gaze is an attempt to encounter the original and capture wonder in an image.
Within this process, nothing is predetermined, making it challenging to claim achievements or technical virtuosity. There is no preconceived plan. Therefore, each work is an uncertain adventure. Doubt and chance, responding to certain impulses, are constants.
Stretching the boundaries of reality opens up new perspectives.
Here, things become possible that are not part of everyday life.
The created image offers a renewed and personal rediscovery of the world. It reveals something of which no one was aware.
Sometimes it is a playful and effortless adventure, often a struggle, an endless search and restart. Isolation, stillness, and deep concentration are necessary attitudes.