Adrian Sauer

An essential constituent in Adrian Sauer’s work is the conception of photography in the digital age in regard to materiality, culture and purpose.
His works are designated by a unique and idiosyncratic appearance oscillating between hyperrealism and simultaneously an apparently unreal surface. Sauer’s vantage point is always the permeation of phenomena in our visual and material culture. He herewith uses very precisely the different possibilities of image- making for the respective object of his photographic interest.

Like no other artist of his generation, Adrian Sauer questions the possibilities of analogue and digital photography. He examines and deconstructs the modes of representation of digital image production, thereby exposing the photographic image as a mere construction. The focus is on the technological basis of photography, caused by the radical change of the last 30 years, which fundamentally changes the photographic process.

This is where Sauer comes in by fragmenting the process of image production, creating insights into individual elements. His conceptual approach allows for a complete new understanding of the image, which no longer deals with the exhibition wall as such, but approaches other disciplines by subversively undermining the photographic image and digital technology.