Jorg Karg

Fire without a Sound

Since September 2019 I took about 8.000 photos in my studio and around. I experimented with clay, wire, wood and so many more materials and objects. Just to name some things, I covered a chair in concrete and glued around 1000 pearls on fabric. I bent candles, grinded stone for weeks and smashed a lot of beautiful ceramics just to photograph the shards. All to finally understand one thing: “Breaking the boundaries means breaking my own boundaries in first place. Dismiss all restrictions. Exhale everything. Start again.” Result is a body of photographic collage works I fianlly released in July 2020.

Photographer

Jorg Karg

„The intention behind my photo collages is that the beholder feels addressed immediately, without any further explanation. Therefore I use present-day visual language and techniques to combine it with long established, fundamental ideas of painting and drawing.
Our subjective perception is shaped by so many instant influences these days. Modern media affects us immensely, but so does almost forgotten ideas about shapes, colors and expressions of past days. Everything builds on one another and is subconsciously present all the time. All that has to be taken into account to move the viewer and create an unexpected personal experience. If you like, an expansion of the field of collage.
My own person is irrelevant in that context, what is underlined by the use of a pseudonym.“

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