Exhibition “Light and Dark Stars”

22 Apr – 20 May 2023
Vietnam University of Fine Art Museum
42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi

From the organizer:

Curator: Vũ Huy Thông
Artist: Adrian Sauer

For Adrian Sauer, photography is a medium of reflection. The light reflected from various objects causes a pictorial representation of the material. But at the same time, photography is also, as it were, transparent and invisible.

One thinks one sees the motif, the object, and not the photograph. In his works presented in the Museum of the Hanoi University of Fine Arts, the artist tries to shift this relationship. He allows the material and the process of photography to become visible and enables a poly-perspectival view.

Adrian Sauer was born in East Berlin in 1976 and lives in Leipzig. institutions. Adrian Sauer is a Professor of Photography and Generative Image Systems at Bielefeld University. In 2023, Adrian Sauer was awarded the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography.

In the exhibition “Light and Dark Stars”, several of his current and earlier works are shown alongside the titular work (2017): 256 Graustufen (2020) and Palast der Republik (1993).

Exhibition “Light and Dark Stars” is an event in the framework of International Photography Biennale Photo Hanoi’23

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