Summer Blue sprang from a year-long residency at Chäteau de Suronde, an organic wine estate in Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru in the Loire Region. Summer Blue is a field exploration. The setting is summer, the feeling is blue. Peter Henry Waterschoot works his way around romantic scenery using l' heure bleue and blue neon, turning the real into the unreal. More and more exotics pop up, the aesthetic becomes uncanny, and the garden becomes unkempt until it finally blurs into impenetrable wilderness. The quiet voyage reminds us of a theatre backdrop, a midsummer night's dream, Alice, or even Where the Wild Things Are, but at its core, a personal story lies hidden. The book contains 96 images with field notes by the photographer and an essay by Prof. Jürgen Pieters ( Ghent University).
Summer Blue sprang from a year-long art residency at Château de Suronde, an organic wine estate in Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru in the Loire Region. The biodynamic vineyard borders the Layon river and is surrounded by 10ha of wild nature, ensuring natural biodiversity.
Peter H. Waterschoot (°1969, Belgium) is a visual artist based in Ghent, Belgium. His work is a joust with time and texture, it invites you to lose yourself in reverie or melancholy. 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 in a a wild chromatic spectrum, from saffron gold to electric blue. His work has strong meditative undercurrent.
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 Musée de la photographie in Charleroi, Belgium.