\r\nA visual artist and filmmaker, the work of the Belgian St\u00e9phanie Roland is moored between the documentary and the imagination. She draws inspiration from various fields of science, from ecology to geology and the cosmos. Owing to an obsession with forecasts, highly telling of the way our societies operate in the present, her productions interrogate (in)visible structures and the notion of temporality.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n
A few short pedal strokes from the Brussels-Midi train station, in the Anderlecht district, we push open the door to POELP<\/a>. A creation and experimentation space for artists which St\u00e9phanie<\/a> moved into a little over a year and a half ago. Her \u2018safe space\u2019, as she likes to call it. On the walls are a few photographs, pieces of geographical maps and various sketches. When she is not reading papers produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to stay abreast of the latest scientific developments, she pins up a part of her reflections to keep them physically within arm\u2019s reach. \u2018I also have masses of notebooks in which I collect the things and places which have caught my attention\u2019, she tells us. \u2018At some point, occasionally after several years of annotations and reading, these ideas intertwine and the planets finally align\u2019. Following an impulse, often an intuition, St\u00e9phanie then launches into a new process of artistic creation, these days more likely to involve the audiovisual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n