TREE Pol Pauwels works with what is present, with what takes place around him. He has written a theatre play about autism, a diagnosis that labelled the early life of his first born. Active But Odd. Or in “La Familia”, he literally put his family on the scene. With the video installation “Tree”, he returns to his Muse: his oldest son with his friends. Tree is a video about three handicapped people that are literally exposed in their bare nakedness. People that are looking at them, as spectators, are showing their resentfulness. The reactions of the three main characters looking at themselves is also displayed. TREE Pol Pauwels works with what is present, with what takes place around him. He has written a theatre play about autism, a diagnosis that labelled the early life of his first born. Active But Odd. Or in “La Familia”, he literally put his family on the scene. With the video installation “Tree”, he returns to his Muse: his oldest son with his friends. Tree is a video about three handicapped people that are literally exposed in their bare nakedness. People that are looking at them, as spectators, are showing their resentfulness. The reactions of the three main characters looking at themselves is also displayed.