Loving Earth - PBF01 / Lukas Hoffmann
18 November 2016 to 18 January 2017
“As the very earth upsets the surface of the image, the picture loses the depth of the landscape.”
In Lukas Hoffmann’s photographs, the landscape does not stretch out before a horizon at the back of the image; it splays the front view of its surface. Instead of a horizon, you see thick brush, a mirror-like pond, wilted leaves, the earth of a plowed field. The pictural field moves along the ground, erasing the coordinates of the horizon, which is the line that usually differentiates the sky from the earth, what is close from what is far, by structuring man’s orientation in space through balance and gravity. Hoffmann’s photographs deprive the spectator of this possibility of differentiating and distancing. A new organization of the landscape takes form in these images of wilting radicchio fields.
