Wir leben auf einem Stern (2021)

Lina Louisa Krämer

Translated from the original German

Layer upon layer, photographs are placed over one another until they ultimately form a relief of adhesive and material that transforms the flat surface into a three-dimensional landscape. The work Rüdesheim oscillates between painting, photography, and sculpture, depending on the viewer’s standpoint. The superimposed layers only reveal themselves upon close inspection, as do the chemical processes that have removed pigments from the surface of the photographs, thereby bringing forth new colors and chromatic stratifications. Through this process, the artist renders nature naturalistically as a subject, while also making use of it—for example, as a point of departure for his sculptural works.

The compositional structure of the image at times recalls the classical plein-air painting of the Impressionists, and at other times resembles casual snapshots taken with a mobile phone, capturing a detail or a fleeting moment without elaborate compositional means. An inscribed trace within the material is also evident in other works by Eunu Lee, in which layers of color accumulate upon one another, forming the basis for movements that manifest themselves as lines and forms. Likewise, his sculptural works engage with processes of layering and superimposition, preserving fleeting observations by fixing them within material form.