Pascale Lander

“Pascale Lander grew up in Alsace, the cradle of her paternal family and a branch of her maternal family. You could easily imagine that her cellular memory would have generated a character full of modesty and restraint, while managing emotions… In a word everything that characterises the collective imagination, quick to fantasy and caricature, the children of the Rhine valley. Well you would be wrong, you can’t imagine how wrong. Pascale is a love at first sight, a tornado, and if you have the privilege of being one of her friends like me, you will have to learn to master a surge of energy and gentleness, a torrent of expressed sensuality. She doesn’t look at you, she devours you with her eyes, she doesn’t talk to you, she envelops you with her words. And when she does both at the same time, you are sure to succumb. All her life before her, she had followed two parallel paths, dance, theatre, body expression was one, painting, drawing, body representation was the other. She jumped from one to the other and moved forward like that. When Nicolas, her fellow musician, stopped touring to settle down and compose, she did the same and immersed herself in her studio. We were in 1999 and painting took over forever on that day. Since then, she has been producing incessantly, inhabited by her rage and enthusiasm. There is only one theme, the female nude, which she explores ad infinitum”. Jean-Denis Walter