Gideon Kiefer / I'm Lost in a Forest painting with the photographic process shining

with the photographic process shining through the darkroom

I used them as the foundation

and a few of us are aware that we are still willing servants to a completely artificial injunction to consume and to define ourselves by what we consume

more entangled way of seeing and making

Gideon Kiefer / I'm Lost in a Forest painting with the photographic process shiningA fascination with (childhood) memories, dreams and the question of how we should now deal with the unreliability of our own memory is the common thread in the painting and drawing oeuvre of Belgian artist Gideon Kiefer. On a second level, Kiefers work reads rather socially critical. In the layering of his works, the artist displays an apocalyptic atmosphere linked to the growing climate crisis. Landscapes caught under a bell jar or carefully placed