Peter Henry Waterschoot, PHW
Copyright 2016
Peter H. Waterschoot (°1969, Ghent) is a visual artist based in Ghent, Belgium. His work is a joust with time and texture, it invites you to lose yourself in respectively: reverie, melancholy, lust, discomfort, detachment.
It is an oeuvre that is carefully stripped of time and space markers.
Hotels, curtains, lost glory: all fixed values in Waterschoot's photographs, depicting the moment after, or before the event. A Janus look on the current of time; is it a story on nostalgia or a future dystopia? We see a cinematographic dreamworld built with elements from the real world; nevertheless referring to literature, film and music, asking questions about our place as a human species in a fast-changing world. The photographer makes us dive into a comfortingly solitary one-ness.
SUNSET MEMORY descends slowly, through neon blue, from freezing cold nights into warmtoned covert corners.
Waterschoot investigates a wild chromatic spectrum, from saffron gold to electric blue. His work is an ungoing aesthetic investigation with strong meditative undercurrent. His photowork makes you experience a compelling, enigmatic, ominous but yet comforting magical realism.
The photographs by Peter H. Waterschoot have been published as books; ‘AT THE SKIN OF TIME ’ (2018), ‘SUNSET MEMORY’ (2021), but also in different magazines such as Collect Magazine, De Standaard, Halogénure, the Artcouch, e.a. The artist has exhibited in DE WARANDE (Hasselt), PAK (Gistel), MI*Gallery( Paris), Casa Argentaurum (Gent), Galerie Zwart Huis ( Brussel ), Arture (Brussel), Villa Des Zéphyrs ( Middelkerke).
2021 CHARLEROI Musée de la Photographie, soloshow, Sunset memory
2021 BRUSSELS ARP2 publishing, bookpublication, Sunset Memory
2020 TURNHOUT DE WARANDE, DE NACHT GROUPSHOW,
with a.o. David Claerbout, Bieke Depoorter, Harry Gruyaert, Soham Gupta,
Hans Op de Beeck, Thomas Ruff, George Shiras, Kohei Yoshiyuki, and others.
2018 BE Beeldverhaal De Standaard Weekblad, 6 page portfolio, publication
2018 BE The Artcouch, publication
2018 GENT Casa Argentaurum, At the Skin of Time, soloshow
2018 Brussels ARP2 publishing, At the Skin of Time, bookpublication