Markus Zohner

Phozoographs: Art as a Nexus Between Conscious and Unconscious.

Markus Zohner resides and works in Switzerland. With his theatre troupe, he embarks on tours worldwide.
His book, 'The Rediscovery of the Amber Road,' narrates his over 4000-kilometre journey on foot from Venice to St. Petersburg, spanning twelve countries in the heart of Europe.

His photographic works all revolve around analogue materials, with a focus on the moment of image creation, the instant of capture. Indeed, his images are scarcely post-processed (except for preparation for the printing process).
Zohner's photographic craft revolves around the alchemical transformation of analogue film material. Bursts of colour, reminiscent of chemical pyrotechnics, cascade over the canvas, disentangling the image's link to reality.

Although his works employ classical photographic techniques, they transcend mere 'photographs' (Greek: 'drawings, writings with light')—a more fitting term might be 'phozoographs' (Greek: 'paintings of light').
In fact, they seem to submerge into deeper layers of sensation, detached from the concreteness of consciousness, and from there, they resonate with the viewer. They narrate processes of immersion in the environment, so that the subject i...

Exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the USA