Luis J. Soltmann, photography
Against the Thoughtlessness of Perception
Photos appear to simulate visual perception almost to perfection while simultaneously eliminating vision‘s fleetingness. Often, it seems as if only a good photograph can present us with a true image of the objects of our world, despite the fact that we see them time and again with our own eyes.
Instead of simply filing them under the heading of "optical phenomena" Luis J. Soltmann has maintained an acute sense for such appearances. His photographs testify to a wonder whose frequent tacitness is the source of their allure. Early on, his sensitivity to such factors prompted him to produce them in situ and to experiment with phenomena. Soltmann knows that visual experience hesitates at the border of the explicit; where the understanding demands security, the eye reveals ambiguity. Reason enough to question visual perception.
Soltmann is a systematic worker preoccupied with multiple questions at once. He maintains several small series that he returns to again and again and that will probably accompany him for the rest of his life. For even as science is better able to explain the problems of perception, its phenomena, and the poetry that lies within them, remain.
Opening
Sunday, 01.06.2008, 12:00
Press kit
press.sehquenzen.zip
