MAX SUDHUES
SELECTION OF WORKS / EXHIBITION VIEWS
Approximately Infinite Universe, 2010
I Love You But You Destroy Me/ About The In-Between, 2009
The world according to..., 2007
SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS
Buiten, Lambertushofpassage Hengelo, 2011
Dist-Ort, Domaquaree, Berlin 2010
Ghosts as Guests, Lichtkunstbiennale Ruhr, Open Light in private Spaces, 2010
Kijken / To look, GLOW Eindhoven 2009
Eine Höhle für Platon, MontagStiftung Bildende Kunst, Bonn 2009
Lampenmemorial, Museum Bochum 2008
Die Sehnsucht der Zellen, Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile 2007
Dschungelfenster, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2006
Dschungelfenster, BauHausFischer, Wuppertal 2006
SOLO EXHIBITION VIEWS
Fear of Falling, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne 2010
Home Before Dark, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden 2010
PLUTO, Kunst Nu Ruimte, S.M.A.K. Gent 2008
Behausungen im Dschungel, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne 2008
PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
Workshop and exhibition SPACE:OPEN, Jekaterinburg 2011
BRIZZEL, collaboration with Jon Moscow, Institut für skulpturelle Peripherie, Düsseldorf 2011
Herder Raum für Kunst, Cologne 2009
ABOUT MY WORK
While observing my work, I want the spectator to enter an environment that is both poetic and threatening, balancing on the verge of dreams and nightmares. In the tradition of the ‘collage’, I create (moving) images and spaces where the original objects remain visible, but faded, so that a number of associative interpretations may be possible. I try to achieve this through transforming banal and everyday objects through light projections, and to transform them to unexpected proportions and interpretations.
Each object retains its own functionality within the installation, but it is invariably connected to a bizarre, narrative and complex imaginary world. I am interested in different visual layers. Behind the trusted run-of-the-mill foreground, I am searching for moments of confusion and alienation, for apparitions that may try to ‘break open’ a normal perception.
In an ‘obstacle course’ of installations, various projections, video loops, photography, site specific interventions and a great range of combined materials, I want to explore the boundaries of analogue and digital, light and shade. Using different projection methods – from office lamp to beamer – I create images.
I refer to the apparent static state of everyday affairs, which are, in reality, subject to constant change, to create allegorical, sometimes stirring worlds of pictures which, though man is absent from them, nevertheless indicate his actions and his standards in a field of tension spanning emotion, technology, architecture, society and nature.