ANDREAS GEFELLER: MAPPING PERCEPTION
ATLAS is delighted to announce the first UK solo show of Andreas Gefeller’s work. The exhibition will showcase Gefeller’s new series of photographs The Other Side of Light alongside works from his earlier series Soma (2000), Supervisions (since 2002), The Japan Series (2010) and Blank (2010–2016). Tracing Gefeller’s 20-year artistic career up to the present, we will illustrate the evolution of his vision.
At the heart of Gefeller’s photographic practice is a deep questioning of external reality, the nature of perception and how the camera can be used to reveal what lies beyond our senses. Gefeller subverts our expectations of what is real by creating images that draw out unexpected visual connections and atmospheres within every-day surroundings – whether it’s in the twining of electricity poles and cables or the spores of the Chilean araucaria branches.
In his latest body of work Gefeller focuses on natural forms and uses varying exposures to create images of their embedded structures. By taking these forms out of context, the viewer is immersed into their patterns that seem almost digitised due to the intensity of light. This way the ripples of water or the dense cloud formations become strands of optic fibre or a ‘cloud’ of digital knowledge.
043 (Sea foam), The Other Side of Light, 2019
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DETAIL – 043 (Sea foam), The Other Side of Light, 2019
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037 (Sparks), The Other Side of Light
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DETAIL – 037 (Sparks), The Other Side of Light
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015 (Palm Leaves), The Other Side of Light
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DETAIL – 015 (Palm Leaves), The Other Side of Light
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013 (Araucaria), The Other Side of Light
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DETAIL – 013 (Araucaria), The Other Side of Light
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DETAIL – Driving Range, Supervisions
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Swimming Pool, from Supervisions
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DETAIL – Poles 45, The Japan Series
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005 (Seawater), The Other Side of Light
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DETAIL – 005 (Seawater), The Other Side of Light
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Grape plantation, The Japan Series
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DETAIL – Grape plantation, The Japan Series
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025 (Water Reflection) from The Other Side of Light
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DETAIL – 025 (Water Reflection) from The Other Side of Light
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