Thomas Florschuetz: Anatomy of a Triptych

Support for the exhibition is provided by: IFA, Goethe Institut, AB-AEGON, Scientific, Research and Cultural Department of Berlin Curated by Andrea Regos Thomas Florschuetz directs the camera´s lens to his own body. Calculated distances between the lens and model result in records of body-parts as photographs. This process transforms the human body, our closest belonging, into an enigmatic set of forms with the separate parts of the body the syllables of an as yet unknown language. The larger-than-life-size photographs expose a range of experience from the intimacy of an eyelid, hair or the delicate lines of the human palm to the cold and indifferent eye of the microscope. The image of a wrist detached from both the forearm and the hand through the close cropping of the picture-frame appears to us as absurd, alien, even frightening. Although we can usually reconstruct these fragments into their full unity we are left without final satisfaction: our feeling of alienation forever remains, hovering over our body.