(° 1969, Ghent - lives and works in Ghent)

Detached from any indications of location or time, Peter Waterschoot's photographic images immerse you in a certain melancholy mood. His work takes you into a sometimes threatening emptiness where silence and often a slight erotic tension can be felt. His photos seem plucked from an American film noir, but with color: neon light behind a semi-transparent voile in a run-down hotel room, a tiger print partly hidden under a tablecloth, women's legs in nylon stockings on a satin sheet or gold-lit, deep red or soft blue. Everything seems to suggest that there is a different reality behind the displayed world. As if the photographer wants to point out a world behind the surface. Behind, in front of and between the screens.