Change Of Perspective
From December 17th
There seems to be a background field in our lives on which our life energy moves. When we construct something “harmoniously”, we go into resonance with this field and energy can flow. We know this phenomenon from buildings, the arrangement of petals, our bodies and in the conception of pictures, among other things. We question relationships. How does the human thumb relate to its foot? What is the relationship of the body to the space in which it is located and how is this relationship defined? How does analogue photography relate to our currently overexposed world with its flood of digital images and how do we deal with it? How do we define an ideal proportion? What point of view do we adopt when we look at the world and is it possible that the world is not at all as we perceive it? What happens when we change our point of view? Does the world change then?
These questions automatically come to mind when we look at the photographs by Martina Stapf, Verena Freingruber and Jakob Huger in the current exhibition PERSPEKTIVENWECHSEL at Photon Galerie. The three Austrian photographers were first exhibited together in October 2021 as part of the ROTLICHT festival in the exhibition “Austrian Emerging Artists”.
Martina Stapf’s main motif is the body, which serves her as a projection surface. She actively deals with structures we encounter in everyday life, with the movements of the human body and its relationship to the environment. The photographer Verena Maria Freingruber turns the human body itself into a landscape, where it irritates – through its surreal topography. Jakob Huger also approaches the landscape, but with an analogue large-format camera from the 1950s. With the contemplative working method of large-format photography, he forms an antipole to the fast and hectic world of digital mass production.
-Katrin Bruder