Rare, smeltende portretten om een beetje bang van te worden

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Mar 22, 2016 at 12:52pm PDT

Smeltende gezichten, surreële beelden en getransformeerde vrouwenlichamen vullen de Instagram van de Berlijnse Pierre Schmidt, ook wel bekend als Dromsjel. De kunstenaar deelt op zijn account vooral illustraties en collages van vrouwen in vintage kleding, maar niet voordat hij hun anatomie heeft vervormd met psychedelische draaikolken. Ondanks het vrolijke kleurgebruik en de lachende gezichten krijgen de verwrongen beelden van Dromsjel zo toch een duister randje, een haast dystopische uitstraling. Het stelt de kijker voor de vraag: is dit een droom of een nachtmerrie?

sorry censored #drømsjel

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Apr 20, 2016 at 1:03pm PDT

#drømsjel

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Mar 13, 2016 at 1:26pm PDT

Slavoj Žižek about nightmare: Nightmare is not simply horror, not simply anxiety, not simply tension. in the nightmare there is always an ambiguity of border-crossing, of externalisation, where you meet an object that emerges from your deepest inside. let's take an object like saliva in your mouth: it's not disgusting/horrible, you can swallow it, no problem. Now, try to do something very simple, spit it out, on some outside surface, and then try to lick it off, swallow it again,all of a sudden it becomes extremely disgusting, although, it's not another person's saliva, you know it very well, it's yours. now imagine on the same level your most secret objects of your fantasies, your most secret dreams, by which your whole psychic identity is structured. But precisely because they are so known/intimate to you, you don't dare to confront them directly. So this is precisely what you do confront in a nightmare. #drømsjel

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Apr 22, 2016 at 3:47pm PDT

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Jun 5, 2016 at 6:29pm PDT

'A Kews Tag' commissioned album cover for their record- 'Silence Of The Sirens.' #Drømsjel #AKewsTag 

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Jun 9, 2016 at 7:13pm PDT

'High Hopes' 2015 #Drømsjel

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Jun 10, 2016 at 7:50pm PDT

'The Hunter' #drømsjel

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Apr 12, 2016 at 2:21pm PDT

'Strange Magic' Copies available in my print store. (Link in the description.) #drømsjel #strange #magic #thednalife

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Feb 28, 2016 at 6:43pm PST

'Secret Garden' #drømsjel #rsa_graphics

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Jan 11, 2016 at 4:38pm PST

"Daily Inspiration" now available at my print shop

A photo posted by Pierre Schmidt (@dromsjel) on Nov 19, 2015 at 9:33am PST

Volg Dromsjel hier. We zitten zelf trouwens ook op Instagram.