Samuel Bester

I like to explore the ambiguity between reality and our conception of it. Through nuance or distortion, I amplify the interrelations between perception and emotion. Time, the senses and dreams play key roles in my work: they conjure up a language that is often metaphorical, arousing curiosity or blurring apparent meanings and triggering unexpected mental images. My work is protean and intermedial: sounds and/or images in installation or projection, in still or moving images. I seek to present a philosophical and poetic view of the world, because I'm convinced that that's what art is there for: to reveal to us things that we don't see or wouldn't have seen. A work of art has the power to shift our gaze and thereby enrich us, fill us with wonder and transform our perception. My quest is to (re)poetise the world through the visual arts.