In classical painting, the act of creation fulfills a pre-imagined vision — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. For Daniel Pierart, painting is a therapeutic mechanism, evolving through sensation, memory, and deconstruction. A former police intelligence officer, Pierart was physically wounded in the line of duty, an injury that led to PTSD. Painting became a form of survival — not just a representation of trauma, but a practice from within it.

Pierart’s black-and-white drawings, often grotesque and fantastical, blend animals, hybrids, and distorted bodies. Influenced by Bosch and infused with psychological intensity, his figures crawl between fear and rage, fantasy and horror. His alter ego — a grounded bird — symbolizes the imagined escape he cannot take.

In Lnds of Dread, Pierart brings his drawings into three-dimensional form. A soundscape by Ofri Sinai intensifies the post-apocalyptic atmosphere, where trauma becomes visible — not healed, but held and witnessed.

Photography - Idan Goore