On the occasion of our solo exhibition by Juergen Staack ABBERATION EROSION V1S10N, Juergen Staack was on site for an artist talk on November 24.
Juergen Staack is a German minimal art and conceptual artist based in Düsseldorf. Staack developed his own forms of expression in conceptual photography quite early on, focusing on the translatability of photography into language and the material fragility of the analog and digital photographic image in its fleetingness. To do so, he uses a wide variety of media, such as performance, sound, video, sculpture, and photography. Staack questions our perception in all areas and explores the boundaries of image production anew. Coincidence is important in Staack's works; the unknown, changing processes are important stylistic devices in his experimental photography.
Central to the space of our exhibition ABERRATION EROSION V1S10N was a pedestal with a colorful landscape photograph, which on closer inspection is made of fine quartz sand: it shows the demilitarized, guarded zone between North and South Korea. Sound vibration dissolves the fine quartz sand and causes the borders to blend into one another.