2023,
18 polaroids ( selection),
each 9 x 10,5 cm,
signed and numbered,
Limited edition: 5 + 1AP, available.
Technological promise meets simulated evidence.
The Skin of Things
Category: Polaroid-Selection
Deep Vanitas
2023,
33 Polaroids (selection),
each 9 x 10.5 cm,
Signed and numbered on the back,
unique, available.
Since the invention of the internet and social media in particular, our society has found itself in parallel realities: the analog, physical world and the virtual one. There, we are increasingly confronted with fake people and fake stories that have been perfected with the help of artificial intelligence. How can we counter a digital space that is dehumanized in every respect?
In this work, I bring together two things that don’t belong together: the Polaroid and the AI-generated fake human. For a long time, Polaroids embodied authenticity and uniqueness, because each photo was unique and captured a real moment in all its imperfection. But the scenes here, which look like baroque vanitas motifs, never existed. And yet the Polaroid as a medium lends this work something credible and truthful.
In this constellation, the vanitas idea “Remember that you are mortal” is given a surprising twist, which could come from the “mouth” of an artificial intelligence: “Remember that you are obsolet”.
Exhibition History (Selection):
2025 – 77. Great Swabian Art Exhibition, Augsburg, Glaspalast
2023 – House of New Realities, Augsburg, Vacancy in Bäckergasse
2023 – More Theater!, Ismaning, Schlosspavillon
2023 – Uncanny Valley // Das unheimliche Tal, Augsburg, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus
Waldesrauschen
2015,
8 Polaroids,
each 9 x 10,5 cm,
Unique, available.
“Waldesrauschen” explores the principle of noise as a visual and conceptual category within the Polaroid series. The technical noise inherent in the photographic medium is here overlaid with the notion of acoustic natural noise. It does not refer to a disturbance in the classical sense, but rather to an ambivalent perception that straddles the line between image artifact and observation of nature.
The depicted winter landscape remains blurred and fragmented due to the material properties of the Polaroid image. This results not in a clear documentation of the location, but in a subjectively filtered visual situation that oscillates between memory and perception. The noise functions here as a connecting element between medial blurriness and the remembered experience of nature.
Exhibition History:
2017 – Eye Catcher, Kaufbeuren, Kunsthaus
