About Thomas Bachler

Ulf Saupe Gallery is proud to present Thomas Bachler´s revelatory series of photo-books, crime scenes and illusory worlds (Scheinwelten). Thomas Bachler, born 1961 in Detmold, invites us through his conceptual works to a deep reflection upon the analyses of esthetic processes, upon social and historical coherence but also upon mental processes that guide human behavior.

He is creating scenes of presence and absence, of questions without resolution, filled with an irony that according to the action itself is always assigned by a photographic fact. Apart from the pinhole camera, Bachler uses processes of decontextualization of images. Devaluated banknotes, photos from the GDR´s state security service (STASI), idealistic socialist literature diversify upon perception. Thomas Bachler´s works invite us, throughout its conceptual mechanisms, to experience an intellectual autonomy that is difficult to imagine in the absence of its submitted esthetic phenomenona.