ANATOMIE DES WALDES - Markus Schroll
(ANATOMY OF THE FOREST)
LOOKING FOR A NATURE BEYOND OUR ARTIFICIAL WORLD
In my latest projects, I am working on a dual understanding of the natural and the artificial world. Roads, woods, pieces of grass, tree trunks appear metaphorically in their photographic compositions as the last ghost of the real world. The resulting images are photographic montages but scenarios created by myself.
The series are conceptually situated between land art and a kind of performance. I´am showing different constellations of a possible forest and finally trying to awake the los spirit in a kind of performance creating a forest as timber, as a mythical forest, a firewood or as ufo landing pad. All this staged in a steril studio inbetween bare concret walls, awaken astonishment or scare, but last not least some kind of humor and seriousness.
