English:Chantal Pollier (Q127935)
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Pascale’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation, and is steeped in solid scientific research and findings.
Her inspiration is drawn from observing the internal and external human body in all its diversity, life and nature in all its beauty, strength, fragility, disease, mortality, immortality and death. New technologies and philosophies, quantum physics, animatronics and robotics (AI) are amongst her interest and are important in her work. Pascale constantly questions the nature of reality. What is this physical life?
To be in close proximity with death, emphasizes the feeling of being alive so she makes drawings, paintings and sculptures in wax and silicone, often inspired by dissection drawing workshops she organizes. Making facial reconstructions on skulls, studying the history of medicine and the art of alchemy is only naming a few of her many projects.
Her inspiration is drawn from observing the internal and external human body in all its diversity, life and nature in all its beauty, strength, fragility, disease, mortality, immortality and death. New technologies and philosophies, quantum physics, animatronics and robotics (AI) are amongst her interest and are important in her work. Pascale constantly questions the nature of reality. What is this physical life?
To be in close proximity with death, emphasizes the feeling of being alive so she makes drawings, paintings and sculptures in wax and silicone, often inspired by dissection drawing workshops she organizes. Making facial reconstructions on skulls, studying the history of medicine and the art of alchemy is only naming a few of her many projects.
Chantal Pollier (1965) graduated in Psychoanalysis and clinical consulting at the University of Ghent in 1990, she also graduated in sculptural and moulage techniques at the KASK (Royal Academy of the Arts of Ghent) in 1991. For 7 years she worked as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist in a centre for children with learning disabilities and socio-emotional problems.
At the same time, her other passion –sculpture- was pushing. Having to make a choice, she finally goes for the life as an artist, never forgetting her psychological roots however. Another seven years, trying to combine sculpting and working as a teacher in sculpting techniques for children and adults, in collaboration with many non-profit organisations with social-artistic aims. She stops teaching in 2008.
She now works fulltime in Ghent, Belgium. Materials: stone (marble, alabaster boulders, steatites, and other calcites…), wax, polyester, silver, glass…
Chantal Pollier (1965) graduated in Psychoanalysis and clinical consulting at the University of Ghent in 1990, she also graduated in sculptural and moulage techniques at the KASK (Royal Academy of the Arts of Ghent) in 1991. For 7 years she worked as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist in a centre for children with learning disabilities and socio-emotional problems.
At the same time, her other passion –sculpture- was pushing. Having to make a choice, she finally goes for the life as an artist, never forgetting her psychological roots however. Another seven years, trying to combine sculpting and working as a teacher in sculpting techniques for children and adults, in collaboration with many non-profit organisations with social-artistic aims. She stops teaching in 2008.
She now works fulltime in Ghent, Belgium. Materials: stone (marble, alabaster boulders, steatites, and other calcites…), wax, polyester, silver, glass…
