Pascale Ettlin’s artistic practice explores the fragile balance between vulnerability and responsibility in a world where familiar certainties are becoming increasingly unstable. Rather than representing reality, her work seeks to reveal its hidden fractures.

Nature is not the subject of her work, but the language through which she explores memory, identity and the fragility of the human condition. Forests, young girls, animals and recurring motifs become metaphors through which personal stories resonate with broader ethical and social questions.

Echoing Freud's concept of the Unheimlich, Ettlin creates poetic universes where dreams, fairy tales and beauty coexist with history's violence. Her work inhabits the fragile thresholds where the familiar becomes unsettling and where images reveal as much as they conceal.

Each project unfolds through a dialogue between image and material. Velvet, hair, survival blankets, textiles, photography and painting become active participants in the construction of meaning, carrying memory and transforming perception.

Her recent projects investigate collective memory, symbolic violence, the representation of women and humanity's relationship with the living world, inviting viewers to reflect on vulnerability, responsibility and the ethical questions that shape our coexistence.