Eva Faché & Frédérique Debras

Inner Worlds presents recent work by visual artists Eva Faché and Frédérique Debras. A first visual introduction to their work immediately reveals a shared passion for the medium of photography and for nature. This fleeting, but not unimportant connecting points between their oeuvres, each with a fundamentally different visual language, leads to the discovery of deeper connections. It expresses their pursuit of a connection between the universal and the personal work.
Both artists start from intuition, through which the viewer comes into contact with the universal in man and in the world. Intuition is here understood as a universal human ability. The tension between purposeful research and intuitive play of the imagination creates a harmonious layering in their work. The spectator enjoys not only the beauty of the images, but is also invited to connect personal experience with reflections on the tangible and spiritual place of human in nature. These shared fascinations comes beautifully together in the Inner Worlds exhibition.

Both Frédérique and Eva have come a long way to arrive at these images. Eva wanted to capture her fascination with the Sámi culture, but struggled with both ethical and artistic dilemmas. This led to frustration, until she decided to focus on the inner experience of this culture and left purposeful documentary photography.
Frédérique changed the focus from capturing reality as she experienced it, towards expressing the inner through the medium of photography. In this way, their work embraces one idea that we find in Kant and Schopenhauer: the idea that man has real freedom when he is creating and contemplating beauty. Hereby man is freed from the compulsion of personal needs and functionality. Abstraction plays a crucial role, because it further opens the boundaries of that freedom. The mind is no longer bound to representation. Precisely because the images do not seem to have a clear predetermined purpose, they offer a form of freedom in a world where purpose and satisfaction of needs are central.