Cropped. 2016

The pictorial work subsumed under the title "Cropped" addresses this topic. Working with image characteristics drawn from object-related typological photography and transposing them to architectural illustration, the work shows a series of detached and isolated architecture fragments and building silhouettes – partly taken from pictures but also newly arranged – and puts them together in an exaggerated fashion into context-free and rigid figure-background image compositions. The pictorial figures, sometimes represented in two-dimensions in front of a monochrome background, other times articulated in relief or enmeshed with the picture's background, make use of the freedom provided by the two-dimensional method of representation. Unfettered by any context and disconnected from their initial environment, they negated location as the fundamental prerequisite for the making of architecture and thus become interchangeable objects not specific to any place, in a manner similar to the continuously circulating unbound and mobile goods and products of our modern times.