“close and nearby”
In his photographs, Adrian Höllger captures impressions of the city. Taken at different times of the year and day, both indoors and outdoors, they explore the familiar, that which lies hidden within the obvious, and invite us to reframe our perspective.
The scenes are enigmatic, yet they draw on familiar experiences. As a viewer, one must look closely to develop one’s own narrative, for the images reveal nothing of their technique, all share the same surface, and remain open.
Nevertheless, viewed as a whole, the impression arises of movement through space and of a particular analytical gaze that captures diverse yet structurally similar moments in a representative manner. Time and again, culture and nature overlap, or something disrupts unimpeded observation. Light sources also frequently recur as a motif. Either they provide orientation within the image, like a kind of vanishing point, or they lie outside the picture’s edge and break into the image from there.
One might say that the images are searching for something. However, they do not wish to succumb to a melancholic longing for the past, nor to a hasty, utopian tomorrow, but rather to dispel the fog and find a structure in the present.
Text: C. Huber
consists of framed / unframed photographs / exhibition in early 2024 at the Ermelerhaus Berlin
Supported by VG-Bildkunst / Stiftung Kulturwerk