Real Landscapes

In the series Real Landscapes I am inclined to explore the boundaries between simulation and reality. Small toys from a model train kit are placed in the real landscape. Manfred Schneckenburger: “What Wrede extracts from a couple of low-lying hills, a few cubic meters of sand, and some toy houses are images of stunning clarity, but also scenarios for enigmatic psychodramas, which by no means evoke a mere coincidental reminiscence of the landscape paintings of Giotto to C.D. Friedrich or films with the rocky silhouettes of John Ford to the nocturnal foreboding of Hitchcock. Included in these, are images of wistful yearning, the spirit of which we absorb, but also imagery vacillating between idyll and debacle. Pictures in which lifestyles are condensed: constantly in motion, never reaching a destination, cancellation and departure all at once.”