Gideon Kiefer / I'm Lost in a Forest painting The photographer cuts

The photographer cuts

I used them as the foundation

left arm raised toward her head in a curve

with the photographic process shining through the darkroom

I know I’m asking a lot

Gideon Kiefer / I'm Lost in a Forest painting The photographer cutsA fascination with (childhood) memories, dreams and the question of how we should now deal with the unreliability of our own memory is the common thread in the painting and drawing oeuvre of Belgian artist Gideon Kiefer. On a second level, Kiefers work reads rather socially critical. In the layering of his works, the artist displays an apocalyptic atmosphere linked to the growing climate crisis. Landscapes caught under a bell jar or carefully placed