Curated by Margarita Cappock
Pascal’s painting practice explores the relationship, and sometimes conflict, between the built and the natural world. His work looks at liminal topographies and structures that lie on the margins of human habitation. He often examines the interstitial spaces and edgelands situated at the intersection of the urban and rural. His painting practice is grounded in an archaeology of the recent past and he says he ‘see it as a means of uncovering hidden layers of meaning within the everyday.’
Most of his paintings are fictional landscapes and structures that are loosely based on locations he has photographed in the past. He then amalgamates these images or ideas into a metaphorical environment to reflect upon wider socio-geographic issues, such as ecological degradation, alterity, peripherality, speculative future landscapes and The Anthropocene.
His work often focus’s on infrastructure and habitats that are ambiguous, amorphic or obsolete and he says he see’s these structures and places as being an architecture of the periphery and an allegorical reference for time, change and history.
Many of these painting explore imagined future landscapes inspired by ethereal topographies that oscillate between progress and decline within the arena of the everyday.
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