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Alwin Lay is endlessly occupied with seemingly unobserved objects. The calmness of the gaze within his photographic work seems to once again lend the viewer a feeling of catching an object in the middle of an action and have been front and center in Alwin Lay’s images. The longer we observe, the more agile the scenery becomes. These everyday ‘things’—whose roles we are familiar with—are removed from their normal uses to instead become physical impossibilities. We are captivated by the objects, fundamentally assuming their rigidity. The language of images develops its own logic, opening up a …