SUR|FACES

SUR|FACES The Mystery of Simultaneity As much as the longing for supposedly harmonious substitute worlds may be understandable in these times, we want to set a counterpoint to the growing image-inflationary streamlining with the portraits in our SUR|FACES series – by means of a radical visual language that is all about the pure, unadorned individual and reveals his or her actual human surface in its intensity and vulnerability. For this purpose, we employ cameras equipped with a special time-slit shutter, enabling us to realise the simultaneous visualisation of perspectives. Entirely without digital image manipulation, created only by the influence of time during the approx. 30-second recording itself. It´s straight photography... Optical irritations and distortions are caused by this chronistic influence instrumentalised by us and document the rotation of the portrayed during the course of the recording. This photographic technique makes it possible to perceive the compressed totality of all side views of the head at the same time – seemingly archaic as well as utopian landscapes of faces and heads. For the cycle SUR|FACES we portrayed people with family roots in all continents. The people portrayed are intentionally neither named nor culturally or geographically assigned; they come from different age groups and social classes. We give no indication of their religious, political or gender orientation. Each SUR|FACE tells its own story.