Obsolete Reverse

The sometimes reoccurring motifs of my serial noir still life paintings relate to each other in an associative, formal or content related way. Originating from real objects and products, I first arrange analogue, then digital tableaus, which serve as a basis for my seemingly photorealistic paintings. I am inspired by the sleekness of digital renderings, the inscrutability of pictures taken by NASA telescopes, the cool aesthetics and the use of light in advertising and stock photography.
Through staging the objects with classical means of painting, banal things transform into carriers of mystical meanings: A supernatural phenomenon seems to reveal itself in the mysterious glow. Conversely, the supposed mystery – what is to be seen here? - is unraveled by painting as a play with perception: reality has to be believed, too. The unknown, the extraordinary is just a result of expectation and only an illusion, which diminishes by realizing that these are still life paintings and therefore inevitable anchored in the visual culture of their now.