Andreas Feil

codes of reality

with an unexpected power huge amounts of technically generated pictures appear besides other existing forms of knowledge and gradually prevail over word and sign. in this profound change of external perception we often experience unconsciously a world of simulation whose deceiving appearance feigns exactness and unlimited transparency.

in his works andreas feil transfers percepts from the mass media and thus subversively undermines the usual expectations: photographs are supposed to be a legible document of what has been depicted. he transforms the apparent reality of journalism in the media and opens to the beholder a new unimpeded view without any redundant flow of information or any hidden agenda, enabling a spiritually independent range of horizon, a magical track which opens themind for the essential.