BORDERLINE - BILINGUAL EDITION

Stockmans presents the latest work by Belgian artist Paul D'Haese, Borderline. This new photographic series was produced over the course of hikes along the northern coast of France. Paul D'Haese focused on the border between the built country and the sea. The northern coast of France is marked by history: the Atlantic Wall, the liberation, the camps refugees. With this in mind, the artist studied all kinds of interactions of non-documentary way: those between land and sea, the solid and the trouble, inside and outside, confinement and liberation. Paul D'Haese linked these themes to the search for identity, with the disorder of "borderline" personality as an extreme case. Three years ago, he had the first time the idea of ​​exploring this dividing line. Since then, he has been following a route of approximately 350 km as the crow flies, from Bray-Dunes to Le Havre. It has crossed around fifty villages and towns, with his camera, first by car, then by bike, and finally on foot. Borderline follows Winks of Tangency, a project where he only "touched" the surface, the screen, the wall, the border. This time, he pierced the border by photographing it. As with his previous project, the exhibition is the subject of a publication: "Borderline". Co-published by Hangar Photo Art Center and Stockmans Art Books.