Fabian Oefner   (CH, 1984)

Escape Velocity II – Muha / li (2023). Plastic, fabric 45 x 15 x 15 cm

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An incredible photography project by Fabian Oefner capturing our perception of reality depicting a gunshot tearing through the portrait. Such an intricate concept captured visually through taking a snapshot of thousands of fragments of the original print and arranging them together into a new piece.

A strong image such as this can elicit different emotions and perceptions in different people depending on their background, life experience and culture. To me, the images look extremely creative which take away from the dark and serious possible intention of the photographs due to it leaving me fascinated. That being said, when examined further, the seriousness in the people’s faces creates an ominous mood. The use of black and white makes the detail of the fragments clear and stand out more, as well as adding to the seriousness of the images making them look more intense than they otherwise would in colour. The direct eye contact of the figures in the photographs creates a very personal feel and makes you wonder what the subject may be trying to communicate, it encourages you to empathise.

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"The sculptures of the Heisenberg Series are based on Werner Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle. This theory states, that you can not measure two separate parameters of a particle simultaneously. You can either determine one parameter and ignore the other or vice versa, but you can never know everything at once.

"Oefner took this idea from the world of physics and created an artistic equivalent of it. The sculptures are made of five different everyday objects: shoes, a clock, a tape recorder and a black box. The artist filled these with resin and carefully sliced them into hundreds of individual parts. He then rearranged the slices into a distorted new version of the object, that lets you see its inner workings.

"Through this transformation, the objects have a peculiar effect on their observer: When you look at them from a distance, you can easily identify the object. However, if you start to get closer to observe its inner workings, the shape of the object starts to get distorted and vanishes completely. As an observer you are never able to observe the object as a whole and its inner workings simultaneously. The more accurately we see one view, the less clearly we see the other."

All of his stuff is really cool.

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Disintegrating cars

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