Benoît Theunissen – The Forest is a Portal

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Serie The Forest is a Portal

With The Forest is a Portal, Benoît Theunissen invites us to step beyond the visible, into the hidden pulse of Western European forests. What appears at first as a multitude of trees is revealed, through his lens, as a single living organism — rooted in the soil, yet endlessly rising towards the sky. For months, Benoît wandered through these landscapes, sending his drone into the canopy and gathering hours of footage across shifting seasons. His images uncover the forest not as fragments, but as a totality — richer, denser, more alive than the sum of its parts. Through a process of fractalisation, the footage acquires intricate, repeating patterns, echoing the natural geometry of a snowflake. Colours and textures begin to interlace, forming a subtle harmony that borders on the mathematical. Blending these fragments with immersive visual techniques, he creates portals where distant forests converge, sometimes separated by hundreds of kilometres yet breathing as one. The collection, composed of five works, invokes the primordial elements — earth, sky, sun, water and cosmos — offering not just images but a passage: a meditative, dreamlike journey into the organic heart of the living forest.

Earth, 16:9, Full HD, with sound, limited edition of 1
 Price: 2305 euros

Edition: 1/1

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