Hedge Rider
Fia Cielen
DMW Gallery
24.06.21-24.07.21
Hedge Rider’, which draws its inspiration from an old European term, referring to those who act as travellers between different worlds. In pre-modern times, edges of towns were often marked by hedges, signifying the end of civilization. Beyond the hedge there was uncharted territory and wilderness, ruled by chaos. To ‘ride the hedge’, then, meant crossing the boundary between this world and the next, and to engage with beings and forces beyond this reality. This was done by inducing a trance, a flow-state between waking and sleeping.
In an over-regulated world, Fia Cielen is bent on depicting states in which we can reclaim a sense of wildness, as a means of expressing the intuitive feeling that estrangement can be intrinsically natural. She therefore presents a new series of works that invite us on a journey beyond the hedge, into a shape-shifting realm unaffected by the rules of our reality.
