Steffen Diemer. Gentleness in nature a quiet tranquillity
18.03.2023 - 21.05.2023 ,
Haus der Fotografie Dr. Robert-Gerlich-Museum (House of Photography Dr. Robert Gerlich Museum)
"Diemer's photography is not great theatre, but chamber theatre in black and white. For him, the event lies in the uneventfulness, the sensation in the emphasised simplicity of the representation as well as the subject. Diemer's world of images is a counter-design to the excitement of the digital age, a visual antithesis to a colourful, flickering iconography that is almost impossible to escape.
"Long times," the famous fashion photographer Paolo Roversi once said, "give the soul a chance to settle in." For Steffen Diemer, an average of one and a half minutes is enough to breathe something like soul into his pictures. That sounds like metaphysics. But Diemer's recourse to a historical procedure is not a muscle play of craftsmanship, but a means of generating images of a different kind: "Great silent images", to quote a term by the media scientist Norbert Bolz."
Hans-Michael Koetzle: Possibly one could speak of aura (excerpt). From: Steffen Diemer: haruka ushiro. Exhibition catalogue Galerie Albrecht, Berlin 2021.
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