ANDRÉ HOMAN

Homan´s photographs are images of an apparently hermetically sealed world; he appears to create his own reality, very formal images of trivia from his immediate environment. He makes pictures of the room in his partents' house where pot plants are arranged in a somewhat precious constellation, of a storage area where old shop racks from his mother's small business weave a sort of pattern across the picture's surface, of objects in his own room such as audio equipment or a chair with pieces of cloth. All these very ordinary objechts create a strange physical presence in his photographs, if only by the simple fact that they have been photographed in all their apparent insignificance. Homan himself writes the following about his photographs "The sudden recognition of what has not been sougt / the silent experience of what is / the moment of non-knowing." Like many other photographers of his generation, Homan avoids any expliccit judgement. What exists, what is in the immediate environment, has for that very reason sufficient meaning, beauty, relevance for justifying a photograph.

From the series: Hotel Kitty


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