My work engages with the challenges of a mutable world.
Through a conceptual approach, I extract these challenges from the immediacy of daily controversy and distil them to their existential essence. At the heart of this lies the human longing for belonging – and the ruptures that run counter to it.
Photography serves as my raw material. I use it as a documentary trace, anchoring aspects of the real. These I take up creatively – transforming, reshaping, and expanding them into new spaces where meanings shift, themes are re-read, and a vivid dialogue can unfold.
Dagmar Gester