Torsten Lauschmann

2 September - 6 October 06

Mary Mary is proud to present a solo exhibition by Torsten Lauschmann, his first at the gallery. Lauschmann will present a series of new photographic works, works on paper and film/video projections, which will act as installations within the gallery space.

Lauschmann’s diverse practice continually shifts and plays with expectations of image, falsity and the production of images. Concerned with both the aesthetic content of image, Lauschmann’s practice also centres on the mechanics with which they are created, both in the manipulation of technology and also the action or situation that the image represents and originates from.

In recent works Lauschmann has presented images of his partner and child, poignant representations that catch glimpses of private moments. Alongside this, his film and installation works use clips from a personal collection, installed so as to strip and order the narrative. In this Lauschmann is playfully altering a sense of time and origin, and constructing “visual fables, which are deliberately invented or falsified.”

Lauschmann aims to avoid contextual coherency through formal and material repetition or a signature style but by representing an emotional truthfulness which can be created using any material, form, media and situation. This includes time-based events such as Slender Whiteman “a one-man-trans-European busking tour,” 2002 and World Jump Day which explored the internet as a channel for new works.

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exhibition

Torsten Lauschmann
Interference, Even 2006
Video
2 Mins (Loop)
Edition of 5
Still from film

exhibition

Torsten Lauschmann
The Mathematician (Pal Erd_s) (detail) 2006
Video, wooden easel, blackboard
200 x 170 x 100 cms / 78 3/4 x 66 7/8 x 39 3/8 ins
9 Mins (Loop)
Still from film

exhibition

Torsten Lauschmann, Installation view, Mary Mary, September 2006