'The valley is quiet, the torment indefinitely' says exactly what you feel with the images: motionless rock formations, overall silence in the wilderness, and yet that uncanny, threatening feeling, the silence before the storm. Those who travel in pristine natural areas recognize this, it makes travel unique, some tormented-ness can sometimes be healing.

Each image is accompanied by a small sculpture, in which the human figure still appears, but in a context of suffering, violence and pain: Pot drew inspiration from images by Goya, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Doré, seventeenth-century hunting scenes.... The figurines were made from plastic toy figurines, from which she cut off limbs and added pieces of other figurines. Then she treated the figurines with beeswax, coloring them here and there with spray paint.

Text: Marc Ruyters