APPARATUS

Is a series of still lifes or rather ‘portraits’ of the tools that surround me during work, invisible helpers carrying the weight of a camera and adjusting the lights during the photographic process.

It is also a homage to the philosopher Vilém Flusser, his essays Towards a Philosophy of Photography.

“A work-thing (Werkzeug) or a play-thing (Spielzeug)?”

“Freedom is playing against the camera, even though the human beings taking the photographs cannot escape the state of dependence that they have brought upon themselves, their positive ‘theatre of the absurd’. Their job must be to use images to create spaces running counter to those that are programmed within apparatuses.

This, I think, shows what being free means. Not cutting off one’s ties with others but making networks out of these connections in co-operation with them. Émigrés become free, not when they deny their lost homeland, but when they come to terms with it.”

VILÉM FLUSSER