Archival pigment print on Baryte Fine Art paper mounted on black PVC 120 x 83 cm
2020

editions: 5+2 AP

”IMPRESSIONS”, “PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI, 9th edition, Culture Spaces, April 2024.

Shanghai, China. https://www.photofairs.org/shanghai/

In 2012 a panel discussion hosted by prestige speakers in SFMOMA asked: Is photography over? On the other side of the world, I was standing with my camera on a warm Sunday night observing a mannequin on a swing at a local clothing department store. I photographed it with my beloved 35 mm analog camera. For me, it was something else than storytelling or representation.

At that time a huge technological and digital revolution was happening and photography was on the front line. I then asked myself: How could that be? how could photography be over for art? For me, it did not feel like that.

The work’s name references the painting of a Swiss-German painter Paul Klee from 1920. One Hundred years after Klee’s picture has come to the world it seems like although technology took a huge leap forward, still not much has changed in human consciousness.

Swinging from history into the future, this “New Angel” is forming an intriguing photographic image in a liminal state that holds qualities of beauty, compression, fragility, and irony. The work wishes to highlight and question the abstract mechanism of photography concerning representation, reality, perception, and pictorialism.