“You can use this phrase when you want to indicate that there is no single right answer to a certain question or situation.” (AI-Feedback)
The question at hand is the question of photography. At what point can something be called photographic? That is, at what point do we leave or enter photographic spaces? Can photography be understood as a haptic medium? What is to be understood by the much invoked “drawing with light”? The exhibition up to interpretation is intended to raise these questions and challenges visitors to question their conception of photography.
Bastian Schwind’s works consciously break with the exactness and precision inherent in photography. He perceives photography as a playground for a wide variety of media and materials. Through fuzzy color cards, pasted poster sculptures, or dilettante lead glazing with photographic or photo-technical motifs, the photographic is playfully explored and put to the test again and again. The central question here is: how far can one go and still claim that it is photography? For all their translation and transformation, the works nevertheless always remain committed to the analog mode of operation. A main feature is dedicated to the artist in EIKON #124.

The exhibition is part of Rotlicht Festival

Vernissage 07.11.2023 | 19:00 | EIKON Showroom MuseumsQuartier Wien