This intimate and poetic book is about accepting failure and weakness, and turning it into something new.
Started as a known approach to the landscape. Ended with the landscape turning out to be an obstacle.
‘It didn’t take me long to realize the escape once again wouldn’t work’ by Dieter De Lathauwer became a reflection on place and walking as a solution for inner problems. It was a failed attempt to escape.
Is the perceived and expected healing power of landscape and photography an illusion and above all a construction?
This work is simple in its elaboration: made in one afternoon on an island with a turbulent history and UNESCO world heritage.
It adds to the visual research of Dieter De Lathauwer on the expectations of landscapes.
Mute, oppressive and poetic, the escape is in how we look inside ourselves within the landscape.