Walls become images – Walls found in New York, London, Paris, Berlin or somewhere in the countryside. The walls that are focused on were not created to serve as “facades”, however, but are instead another kind of wall – the kind that goes unnoticed. These are walls that are left to their own devices because the “effect” that they have no longer matters. And while such walls are not thought capable of even having an effect, and nothing is done to them (anymore), they are able to develop their very own, natural effect. It is this basic idea – this kind of reality – that is the subject of the images.
The series of images called WandBild reflect on the function and myth of the wall. A wall not only serves as an object that hinders an action and blocks access; it also shields things from view. It blocks a sensory impression. It renders a perceptual image ineffective by replacing it with another one. “Seen” this way, the wall has a metaphysics in the truest sense of the word. It offers its visible aspect and at the same time its hidden secret. Together this is what makes the wall – and the depiction thereof – so alive.
