In PALM SHADOWS, Belgian artist POLLY POLLET unfolds a series of works that navigate the fragile terrain between recollection and reinvention. What emerges is not simply a memoir of Colombia, where much of this work was conceived, but a universal reflection on memory’s fluid nature—how it is shaped, distorted, and sustained by emotion, time, and longing.
Drawn in ballpoint pen, every image in PALM SHADOWS is an act of commitment. With no possibility of erasure, each mark is a trace of memory made visible—intimate yet unreliable, precise yet mutable. Through this medium, Pollet reimagines the landscapes of Colombia: its exuberant flora, its sun-streaked shadows, its spectral ruins. Inspired by the language of magical realism—so present in the writings of Gabriel García Márquez—these drawings are portals into a world where beauty and violence co-exist, where myth and lived experience blur.
Her process extends beyond drawing. Working through écriture automatique, she writes as she draws—intuitively, without correction, allowing mistakes to become meaning. The result is a body of work that feels alive, like something breathing. Something remembering.
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