“Chronology of Falling”
The starting point for this work was an analysis of our modern society, which offers a narrative of
liberties, dreams and unlimited possibilities but is also informed by constraints and archaic feelings.
Taking its inspiration from “The Fall of the Damned”, a baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens, this
photographic work attempts to deliver a contemporary interpretation of the thematic complex of the
societal fall.
In this represenation, the falling figures have been removed from the baroque-religious meaning of the
descent into hell and are now associatively referring to the social structure of our late modern society
and to the risk, arising from it, of failing, of losing one's hold and of falling.
The work offers some scope for interpretation, pointing towards the artist's intention, but at the same
time inviting viewers to reflect their own positions.
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Size: 200x140 cm
