A Chair is a Chair
The title of the series "A chair is a
chair" is a statement
and at the same time a philosophical question, because does this uniqueness
even exist? In my series, I play with the abstraction of what is perceived as
objective in order to make the viewer aware of the inherent digital variability
of every image, as a reflection of the medium of photography, but also the
question of reality, to draw attention to the relation to reality of our
perception.
The
architect Marcel Breuer had a vision, wanted to design the perfect chair, the
implementation of which resulted in complete dematerialization, he explained in
the first issue of the Bauhaus magazine in 1926. My chair series is visionary,
showing a collection of alternative realities. The spectrum ranges from a
sculptural structure of chairs to an approximate dematerialization as an
aesthetic world experience.
I understand and see my works as
modern interpretations of the photo collages of the Dadaists. A central concern
of my experimental photographic work is to create a counter-draft to the
prevailing photographic and social conventions. Just like the Dadaists, who
rejected the political, moral and aesthetic values of the time and elevated
everyday objects to the status of art using artistic methods and means of
expression such as collage or photomontage.