For her second work, 'Shelter', Renée is interested in ways of living that have to do with 'sheltering'. A shelter is a hiding place, a place where we feel safe, a haven, a harborage, intertwined with human contact.
'Shelter' is about finding ways to take shelter in this world, going to an island to find silence and resilience, to disconnect and reconnect. In a broader sense it is about how we, as humans, experience opposite feelings such as connectedness and loneliness. We need to be connecred to some group or people, but at the same time we need to recover on our own - see everything from our own point of view.
Sheltering also means returning to our basics, living with less, without fear of absence. Part of the images in Shelter were taken on the Shetland Islands. Islands are places where feelings of displacement and connectedness are present. There are less impulses on islands and people are often alone; however there is a strong sense of community. People connect through shared rites, habits and folklore. For example during winter at the Viking Fire festivals, the community comes together.
Texts and words take a turn and become images too. Lorie sooms to be weaving patterns which strenghten interhuman interiorities and open up vistas to what islands 'mean'. The 'expanded' photography is testimony to both the force of local languages in the broad sense and the role of 'sheltering' in human lives.
— Tom Viane in Trigger Magazine, FOMU Antwerp, BE