Pascal Ungerer

My art practice predominantly focus’s on spacial cultures, with a particular interest in liminal and peripheral topographies. I am fascinated by places and structures that lie on the margins of human habitation.

I see my work as being grounded in an archaeology of the recent past, in a space where I can uncover hidden layers of meaning within the everyday in order to create a sense of unease that can question the fragility of the human environment.

My work examines the in-between spaces and edgelands that lie at the intersection of the urban and rural. I see these topographies and structures as an ‘architecture of the periphery’ and an allegorical reference for time, change and history. They also speak to the interrelationship between the built and natural world and the conflict that sometimes exists in that space.

I like to challenge normative perceptions of landscape painting through the prism of unusual structures and topographies. For me, many of these places represent a kind of ‘otherness’ in an often overlooked environment.

Most of my paintings are fictional and imagined landscapes where I amalgamate different places and ideas into a metaphorical space to reflect upon wider socio-geographic issues such as ecological degradation, alterity, peripherality and speculative future landscapes.