Tilo Uischner

Always been asked why I have chosen to work with wood I can only say that I love this material for so many reasons. It brings its own story into the picture, it reveals its character while you work with it and keeps its final secret till the moment when you apply the first layer of laquer. Wood for ages was around people to create homes, warmth or to decorate. I think it is almost exclusively seen as something very positive and in my pictures it constitutes an inviting familiarity although one might find something unexpected behind trusted facades.

I focus on people and try to portrait them as they would tell me the truth about who they are and what they have experienced. Moments of honesty, situations of importance provocing questions, answers and all kind of interpretations I want to conserve and to present in a neutral and subtle way. Very often these stories are about me.

Mostly I avoid titles or symbols explaining too much or directing the viewers to a certain interpretation. Always searching for ambivalent facial expressions or circumstances I want to prevent the possibility of a clear, an absolute, an objective way of explanation. One should just feel it as an impulse and refer to ones own character. For me it is very...