Sebastian Riemer

German artist Sebastian Riemer preserves states of decay of photographic ruins that probably no longer exist. The capturing of the unrestrained, the photographs of decomposing photos underline the desire that has always been associated with the medium to stop time and simultaneously, illustrate the transience of the moment to be banished. Especially in the morbidity of the flaking photographs of models, which throw us a last seductive glance, in these fleeting moments lies the actual beauty of what has barely been depicted, which only at the moment of its disintegration is able to step out of its actually trivial function.

Riemer (b. 1982) attended the Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Christopher Williams and Thomas Ruff. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

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