Artist Feature

Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.

The images are constructions of theatricality and outline the affective logic of dramatic emotion. The isolation of the emotional state of emergency is a constant stylistic device of the photographs as the room does not know a vis-à-vis, no addressee who could benefit from the relinquished gestures of absolute expression; providing no hold, often not even an outline for the emotional instability: the walls do not resist mental rhetoric, but outline it and generate gestures and poses, which are confirmed as symptoms through nomination. The work focuses on the very moment, in which a gesture freezes to become a pose. The photographed bodies and faces are therefore to be understood as an arena for an emotional debate between face and mask. The bodies function as an excavation site for physical and mental emotions. Therefore the portraits rather portray an ambiguity of mental expression, than function as a likeness.

Anja Schürmann