OLAF MARTENS “Distortion”
December 9-16, 2019

Live photoshooting
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“Distortion”, the second solo exhibition of German photographer Olaf Martens with MultipleSpacings alongside a new project, consisting of a spontaneous photo shooting with Swiss model and ex Miss Switzerland Dominique Rinderknecht, the results of which will be showcased in the exhibition.

‘Distortion’ is a journey through the labor of an artist whose work, when seen retrospectively, resembles a fast-track archaeology of our contemporary condition, quickly adapting, transforming and relocating symbols, codes, signs, and languages. The human body, particularly the female figure, is omnipresent in his work, not merely as a motif of contemplation, but as an actor in the world, playing and re-playing different roles, performing the world out and about in all its largesse. Not shying away from the grotesque, the obscene, the bizarre and the uncomfortable, the works present in ‘Distortion’, immortalize the purely ephemeral and banal, the convoluted present and the anxieties of an overwhelming future tense, preemptively conditioned by the current mechanisms of control –the absolute lack of structure.