This series, based on photographic snapshots, revolves around the innocence of the photographer and of his subject at the moment of the ‘shot’. At the same time the pictorial translation transforms each snapshot into the archetype of a certain attitude towards life that transcends the autobiographical and anecdotal and explores the interaction between the uniformity of repetition and its opposite, the shock of the unexpected. This picks up again on the topics of sense/nonsense, transience/death in earlier series and develops them further (‘le conteur’, 2008, ‘peanuts’ 2009, ’banality never changes’ 2009).
"sans titre“ 2009, acrylic on canvas, 120x160cm
"la peur de l'oubli", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
"nature morte", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
"gare", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
"l'inconnu inconnu", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 160x120cm
"le saut", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
"urgences", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
« autoportrait » 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
« pont » 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
« monument » 2009, acrylic on cotton, 160x120cm
« Zhang / le lecteur » 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
« la fête », 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
„L’innocence du moment présent“, 2009, acrylic on cotton, 160x120cm
"le lit de Karsten", 2009, acrylic on cotton, 120x160cm
“In the long run, we are all dead” (J.M.Keynes).
Nothing scares us more than imagining one day losing our memory or even being forgotten by others. If we are forgotten then we are lost in the crowd; Those who are remembered remain individuals. Why else would there be are so many memorials, portraits, old-fashioned silhouette images? Ironically these silhouette galleries often have quite the opposite of the desired effect: looking at the portraits decades later we only see similar-looking, uniform silhouettes. In ‘peanuts’ a population of peanuts, which we do not acknowledge as individuals, is ennobled in a family gallery and thus individualized. Which does not necessarily mean that our endeavours are, well, peanuts. Still...
peanuts, series of 36, 2008/09, acrylic on paper, 8.5x11.3cm each
peanuts, series of 36, 2008/09, acrylic on paper, 8.5x11.3cm each
peanuts, series of 36, 2008/09, acrylic on paper, 8.5x11.3cm each
peanuts, series of 36, 2008/09, acrylic on paper, 8.5x11.3cm each
I am a hopeless Romatic -autoportrait series, 2006, magnetic resonance Imaging/laser print