Albert Gehret
PlatzMenschen (HumanPlace)
- Artistic process
- Digital photomontage from my own unposed photographs
- Production / material
- C-Print on Aludibond, UV-Matte
- Year
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 170 × 95 cm; 160 × 90 cm; other sizes available on request
- Location
- Wien, Stephansplatz
- Edition
- 5 + 2 AP
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Description
*PlatzMenschen* is a photo-based work by Albert Gehret exploring time, movement, and human presence in public space.
Multiple photographic moments captured at the same location are merged into a single image. This creates encounters between people that appear plausible yet never actually took place. A new narrative emerges from individual documentary shots.
At the same time, this layering reveals connections that a single photograph could not show. The traces left by pigeons, for instance, reveal how they react to and navigate their surroundings over time.
The image thus creates a reality that never existed in this form—yet can tell us more about the events at that location than any single instant could.
Where does documentation end—and where does a reality begin that only becomes visible through the image?
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