Today i would like to introduce you to the Project Helix I-IIII _also Visions of Johanna by Marc Botschen. This is Marcs BA Thesis project and we studied together, this is what he has to say about his work:

“My work Helix I-IIII _also Visions of Johanna represents an artistic encounter with the concepts of dualism and doubt through the processes and mechanisms of photography and language. Within this complex and ambivalent force-field between ideal and real, thought and expression, the potential of doubt and the methodology of universal dualism is negotiated through photography and language in its combination and confrontation. At the core of this lies an artistic essay dealing with the level on which photography is located to the reality and perception of the viewer and the reality of what’s represented. Switching and crossing between approving and disapproving of what is being said, the photographs and other different types of texts form an expression of dissective meditation and an unfiltered gaze, being affected by the visual surfaces of my surroundings. In this ambivalent arrangement, the characteristics of the photographic and literal conception are put against each other, revealing the poetic vs. the philosophical processes of perception and its consequences. Regarding an image as something that doesn’t actually exist, because only the reactions to it exist, the work ultimately deals with dissolution and the dissolving in the realms of poetic and transeunt expression. I choose both book and exhibition as ways to transform and mediate the different aspects of the work and focus on material movement and context as a central theme in those different ways of engaging with the work and the spectator.”

Book: Leporello, 18,6×29 cm, 112 Pages,

You can find Marc on Instagram and contact him via mail.