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On the Uncertainty of Being
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Max
My photography is always project-based. Each project is in essence an open question about something I am passionately interested in. I understand my job as the formulation of the right questions through images that work.
Each project consists of a series of images with common structural characteristics. Serial work and repetition allows for a cultural as opposed to a singular vision, for the representation of the multiplicity of the same and for the exposure of meaning.
All my projects are divided into two narratives depending on the nature of the question: Elegies of Manumission and Propositions.
Elegies of Manumission collects projects that through portraiture deal with social and political issues. Portraiture is questioned and in extreme conflict since the advent of modernity. With these controversies in mind, my work would be better defined as anti-portraiture as it is not individuality but the embodiment of ideas what is being represented in it.
Propositions assemble the projects dealing with contemporary art issues through photography and video. Contemporary art, as most intellectual endeavors today, has its own narratives, languages and contradictions that often feel highly specialized and removed. I search for visual structures that raise questions and pull them back to the social and political.