MAX SUDHUES
SELECTION OF WORKS / EXHIBITION VIEWS
Bausaal, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, 2019
Movement Study (Medina), Tunis, 2018
Movement Study, 2018, Parkhaus Rose, Hildesheim
Versehrt. Intervention in a church, Arnsberg, 2017 (Link to video)
Movement Study one, Cologne 2017
Archeological Record, collaborative research work, RAE, 2017
Three interventions in public space, Gibraltar, 2016
The Gibraltar Postcard Exchange Project (Link to Blog)
Walking On Thin Ice, 2015/2016
Intervention at „Wechselraum“, Berlin 2015
Bergen, 2014/2015
Le ciel dans un verre / Le ciel dans une chambre, 2014
Shadows Of The Future, 2012-2017
Approximately Infinite Universe, 2010
I Love You But You Destroy Me/ About The In-Between, 2009
Behausungen im Dschungel, 2008
Die Sehnsucht der Zellen, 2007
ABOUT MY WORK
While observing my work, I want the spectator to enter an environment that is both poetic and threatening, balancing on the verge of dreams and nightmares. In the tradition of the ‘collage’, I create (moving) images and spaces where the original objects remain visible, but faded, so that a number of associative interpretations may be possible. I try to achieve this through transforming banal and everyday objects through light projections, and to transform them to unexpected proportions and interpretations.
Each object retains its own functionality within the installation, but it is invariably connected to a bizarre, narrative and complex imaginary world. I am interested in different visual layers. Behind the trusted run-of-the-mill foreground, I am searching for moments of confusion and alienation, for apparitions that may try to ‘break open’ a normal perception.
In an ‘obstacle course’ of installations, various projections, video loops, photography, site specific interventions and a great range of combined materials, I want to explore the boundaries of analogue and digital, light and shade. Using different projection methods – from office lamp to beamer – I create images.
I refer to the apparent static state of everyday affairs, which are, in reality, subject to constant change, to create allegorical, sometimes stirring worlds of pictures which, though man is absent from them, nevertheless indicate his actions and his standards in a field of tension spanning emotion, technology, architecture, society and nature.