Journey to the unknown
by Tilmann Krieg
6 November – 20 December 2024
Krieg began his artistic life in painting and drawing, even though he has always been interested in photography. He states that nowadays, his camera is like a paintbrush or a pencil in his art making. The artist chooses different cameras depending on the images he wants to create, just like a painter would use different brushes for different finishes in a painting. He uses small digital cameras to minimise the distance and avoid the intrusion between him and his subjects. Then, the photos are uploaded onto his computer, and he walks through the journey again to select and delineate images. Sometimes, they are moody, irritated, joyful, contented or nostalgic, but they all have unfinished stories that linger in the viewer’s eyes. The photos are not computer-manipulated, which makes them much closer to the actual episodes of the journeys. His images‘ painterly quality and colour are then printed on aluminium plates or plastic film to give another dimension to the presentation. The artist says that printing on film or metal plates accentuates the quality of light in the photos as if the audience were present with the artist when the images were being taken. Krieg invites an audience to his unfinished journey, where it finds itself both being the observer and being observed.
