Open Theme nominee

What if you were a Changeling? A Changeling is a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy. The Changeling grows up in a strange family, believing it’s her own. All her life she searches for the holes in her memory. ‘Why do I remember the scent of flowers but can’t I see what my home looked like? Where are those familiar looking places that participate in my life story? Who are these people smiling at me? Who gave me my imagination? I was twins, wasn’t I? I wonder where I belong.’‘As a child I was secretly exchanged with another baby in the cradle, I am a Changeling child. I grew up in a strange family, believing it was my own.’What if your perception of the past is completely different from the stories you were told by your family? How can it be that people who live together for decennia have completely different memories from one and the same moment? My sense of being a Changeling is something that many people experience. I found that memories are playing tricks on us, they distort the specific elements of gender, location, who was involved. I decided to create a fictional life, to make

EXHIBITIONS/ AWARDS PASCALE HUSTINGS
2019 *deMess- solo exhibition-Naarden-Vesting
*Zwerm - A.VOID – group theme exhibition - Fuse NDSM - Amsterdam * Winner Bronze Medal category Fine Art
Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2019
*Coverphoto and publication in Abridged Magazine in collaboration with
Belfast Photo Festival 2019 - Belfast
*Two Nominations for category Open Theme and Fine Art at the
Fine Art Photography Awards 2019 *Project De Stad ‘Lost Noises’ - Amersfoort
2018 *Interiors DMF – Zeist *Slot Zeist-Zeist
*100 New Dutch Photography Talent – Amsterdam
*BRIX; the 25- selection of the 100 Dutch PhotographyTalent - Amsterdam *Studio 62 'LOCATED' – Zeist
*Atelier014 'Alles komt goed'- Utrecht
*Galerie Sehnsucht; ‘Time machine’ – Rotterdam
*Galerie Sehnsucht; ‘Wunderkammer’ – Rotterdam
*Art Route Zeist- Zeist
*Galerie Sehnsucht: ‘Winterreise’ – Rotterdam
2017
*Radio interview RTV Zeist
*Kunstcafé De Gehoorzaal - Den Dolder
*Naarden Fotofestival photobook exhibition- Naarden-Vesting *Athens Photofestival photobook exhibition-Athens, Greece
2016
*Graduationshow Photoacademy Amsterdam LUX *Grand Atelier Route – Zeist
*Rotterdam Photo festival/ Art Rotterdam
2015
*Photoacademy; honorable mention Fotogram prize 2015 2012-2016 Photo academy master of photography education
2011 *Slot Zeist- zeist
2010 *Werkschuit- Zeist –
*Atelier Route-Zeist
2009 *Atelier Route - Zeist
2008 *Walls Gallery – Amsterdam *Atelier Route