Black, red and gold are actually just colors, but for many they are a nation.
Photographs are actually just pixels, but for many they are an image of reality.
The black, red and gold series is actually only made up of pigments, but it creates a cosmos of its own. For centuries, photography, unlike painting, had a claim to truth for many. It showed how something had been and neglected who had seen it that way. People believed in these images. It was only gradually that the photographer's subjective view became important, only gradually did the snapshot become art. In times of digital photography and computer-aided image processing, this journey has reached an unprecedented speed - photography no longer has any claim to authenticity, images can lie - or more: create their own worlds, through their own gaze, their own mind, their own soul. Photography no longer poses the question of what is, but of what could be.
The Black-Red-Gold series consists of photographs of dissolution, adhesion and agglomeration processes. Pigments, soot, gold leaf and ink were dissolved in oils and other liquids and the various irretrievable stages of these processes were captured with the plate camera. What has happened, has happened and will not happen again. The images take on meaning above all through what we see in them: a cosmos, far away or in our midst, secret rules according to which pigments dissolve or group together and are caught at a moment when they push themselves together to form shapes and thus become. Black-Red-Gold was created in Germany from 2004 to 2007, in a country caught between spirit and money, fear of decline and euphoria of upswing, xenophobia and summer fairy tales. Black-Red-Gold shows an in-between world full of hysteria and cheerfulness, full of doubt, full of wonder, which gives us a sense that there is more beside us, beneath us or within us than we ever wanted to believe
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