LOST & FOUND

personal exhibition

2024

Location: Artist-run space of Johan Lorbeer

Maxstr. 21, 13347, Berlin

On the shelves of the Lost&Found Bureau, the most unexpected things coexist. Insignificant to others, they nevertheless hold immense value for the one who lost them.

As part of his first solo exhibition, Alex takes on the role of an officer of this bureau - with
his attention to everyday objects, he returns to the viewer what they have lost, namely the
value of the objects surrounding us.

The artistic approach of the author to photography lies in the fact that his object
photography teeters on the brink of a deeply personal portrait. The objects in his frames
have their own history, personality, and individuality. They hurry, deteriorate, assemble into new forms, intertwine into visual novellas. However, in this approach, the human loses its function as well. Through visual depersonalization and objectification, Alex subjugates the human to all these numerous objects. He does the same with himself, perceiving his creativity as an act of service, as an act of translating the transience of the moment into a timeless object - a photography.