Awarded
Oliver Lang
A series of 12 colour photographies
Photography
Oliver Lang
Oliver Lang
Jury report
With numerous images from this multi-part, but extremely coherent group of free photographic works, Oliver Lang leads us into a confusing word. Thus, for example, the portrayed rows of caravans or houses, the uniformity of which is not irritated by anything, are located in apparently completely uninhabited areas. Nothing gives away the presence of inhabitants or other creatures or disturbs the cleanness of these settings. The two travellers who are stretched out in deckchairs under power transmission lines on top of a pass are similarly detached from a current reality, as are the white plastic giraffes standing in the middle of an uncultivated landscape. An ironic undertone trickles into the feeling of distanced unreality in these shifts, as if he were moving through constructed model landscapes, Oliver Lang focuses on situations in which these relations are given a strongly object-like character. The simple and often strongly rhythmic construction of the images supports the impression of the constructedness of these moments and simultaneously reveals the impressively clear handwriting of the photographer.
Biography
Oliver Lang
Born in
1966
Education
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