Thomas Riess
In an artistic analysis Riess works on and changes the footage he has encountered in order to “question the relation to reality” in an autonomous act of viewing, as he emphasizes it himself. Our reality is governed by media-generated imagery. Whether a commercial subject or “normal” photography – it (almost) always appears that the way we have to see something has already been prescribed: a certain perspective is set, a distinction is made between fore- and background, up and down, a concrete meaning is suggested via carriers of meaning. This is what Riess seeks to counter by breaking conventional patterns of viewing. Photography, painting, and drawing enter into a symbiotic relation in his graphic works.
The moment a child is told what a bird is and believes what is being told, it will never see a bird again.
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