Ever larger parts of the world's population live in cities. This has led to a significant change in urban spaces and living conditions in cities. The critical examination of urban spaces, their change and their effects on society are the starting point of my photographic works.

Blue Wall - SUL photographs

Series ASYMPTOTE
Curves are in a sense "one-dimensional" subsets of a space. Such curves are images of paths, spaces and graphs in constantly changing functions. If a body (curve) snuggles against a straight line, then this line is called asymptote. A metaphor for the interaction of nature, man and man-made "straight", urban living spaces, which keep us alive on the one hand and at the same time the creeping destruction are ourselves - a paradox - beautiful, unreal and yet real. Man becomes human and straight becomes straight. sul

ASYMTOTE Photography

Sven Lorenz discussed in this photographic series unconscious behaviors. Behavior that always refer to an original action, so follow the cause / effect principle. Through these gestures are expressed and enshrined in the behavioral psychology. The large-format portraits of people show the protruding tongue as a subconscious reaction to a conflict.

The photos show a layering of two different portraits. First portrait without a reaction - with closed mouth - and secondly, the portrait of the reaction, the accor stretch tongue. The works allow the viewer to guess at the causes and clarify in connection with the subject a proper understanding of the reaction shown.

CAUSAL EFFECT

Reversal Space

To let the magic of light and the magic of the moment become visible on the fleeting surface of time, in the flowing transition between apparent reality, subjectively perceived anyway, and the magic world of the surreal and the virtual, guided along yellow lines.
Border spaces - understood not only in the geopolitical sense, but also in the urban, cultural, literary, sociopsychological or metaphysical sense - are individually captured photographically, be it through the photographic documentation of the real moment and the associated alienation of the freezing, the staging, the scenic superimposition of fiction and reality.

Heinz Heister, November 2009

Sven Lorenz's Art Collections