In his artistic work, Fabian Jochen Kanzler unfolds a metaphysical examination of the facets of human perception and the variations of its psyche. With his photographs, he seeks to look behind the visible world – where photography in the conventional sense ends. But this view never remains merely on the surface. With his accompanying texts, the artist invites the viewer to cast off the burden of his own perspective for a moment and see the world with new eyes.at the BBKarium Dessau, Fabian Jochen Kanzler is showing exemplary excerpts from two series of works that illustrate his artistic approach and explore the interplay between the inner and outer worlds.
With “Danke, mir geht’s gut”, Kanzler dedicates himself to the patients of a psychiatric clinic in a series of portraits. The protagonists of these works seem to disappear into their surroundings, their contours dissolve and they lose all grip on what we call “reality”. Feelings of strangeness, otherness and disorientation, coupled with the search for meaning, characterize these portraits. At the same time, the artist forces viewers into the role of judges, who – seemingly in the know – look at these strange-looking people. But in the play of possibilities, the question arises: am I really seeing a person or just an image? What is the reality? Could the supposedly “sick” person not rather be the image of a greater, hidden truth?
Opposite this is a self-portrait of the artist, which is also part of a series that questions the nature of our existence. Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? “The Universe in Me” is a profound reflection on being, on reality and at the same time an ode to the immeasurable beauty and complexity of existence.
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To the artist page: fabianjochenkanzler.com
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