In our present time it becomes increasingly harder to distinguish between fact and fiction. We live in a hyperreal world, surrounded by and gradually becoming more and more interconnected with the technology and artificial worlds. We percieve reality through artificial eyes, sensing the world through third party observers. Paradoxical, it seems, the more our technology advances and the more our knowledge grows, the deeper we are going into the darkness of Plato’s Cave, shutting us down from reality even more.
In his work Florian Rosier deals with the manipulation of perception and the creation of virtual worlds. For that he utilizes the medium of photography and challenges its reputition of absolute objectivity by changing the initial picture into something completely new. His images no longer act as a mere representation of the world around us but instead transform into recordings of the subjective feeling that inhabited the moment they were taken. Their vast emptyness radiates an eerie, eternal silence which forms a strong contrast to the sensual overkill of our everyday life.
Fine Art Print (40 x 40 cm) 2017
Fine Art Print (40 x 40 cm) 2017
Fine Art Print (40 x 40 cm) 2017
Fine Art Print (40 x 40 cm) 2017
Vita
*1985 in Münster
2013 Studies photography and media art at AKI Enschede in the Netherlands
Currently living and working in Leipzig, Germany
Exhibitions
2018
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2017, Uhlig Gallery, Germany
STROKE Art Fair, Munich, Germany
2017
Art Bodensee 2017, Uhlig Gallery, Dornbirn, Austria
Absent Presence – Florian Rosier [SOLO], Artspace O, Seoul, South Korea
Waldeinsamkeit – Solo Show, Gachang Art Studios, Seoul, South Korea
Affordable Art Fair Brussels 2017, Uhlig Gallery, Germany
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2017, Uhlig Gallery, Germany
2016
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2016, Uhlig Gallery, Germany
absent presence, Uhlig Gallery, Leipzig, GER
ArtWalk meets CityCrash 2016, “ The Sound of Urban Mirrors ”, Leipzig
2015
ti:me, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
Artist Sweethearts, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, GER
2014
Sommerrundgang, Pilotenkueche/Spinnerei, Leipzig, GER
We are coming to freak you out, Galleria MD_S, Wroclaw, PL
SOMA, Gallery SIGN, Groningen, NL
Winterrundgang, Pilotenkueche/Spinnerei, Leipzig, GER
2013
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
ErstigGeschikt!, FOCUS, Arnhem, NL
Youngblood Award, TETEM, Enschede, NL
Pigs + Pearls, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, GER
TENT Academy Award, Rotterdam, NL
Graduation show, AKI/ArtEZ, Enschede, NL
2012
The Guardians Return, Tankstation, Enschede, NL
TRANSITIONS, P/////AKT, amsterdam, NL
The Guardians of the Shy Emerald, The Motorcycle Showroom, Bristol, UK