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Neven-DuMont-Str. 17, 50667, Cologne, Germany
Open: Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
Artist: Yair Oelbaum
A single nail extends over a blistered, worn spot of exploded porcelain flanked by some glistening pink clovers, leaning forward on a faint trace of hairy, wrinkled margin.
Description stimulates or stifles, sometimes both simultaneously.
In photographic capture, detail is always lost in the distillation from three to two dimensions. Other detail is thereby invented as the lens interprets its gaze.
I’ve long photographed small, ambiguous objects and detritus. Their ambiguity was essential to their appeal to me. Their methods of capture were particularly bent on distorting and rewriting details.
The photographs shown here use more descriptive techniques, resisting my instinct to further obfuscate or re-cast my photographic subjects. Enhanced scrutability curbs their expansive capacity but also serves as a restraint, preserving something closer to the objects’ true spirit.
The subjects are seen on the way, in passing. Maybe assembled in that way for quite some time or just for the depicted instant. On this particular day, they seem to stand with unforeseen pride for their portrait, despite not quite knowing what they’re doing there. In sunken and raised stances, they (try to) filter out extraneous notions of being.
A town you only seem to pass through on the way home on foggy nights.
The inner, inner pocket fold has a confusing iridescent sheen…and why shouldn’t it?
Y.O.
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