Max Sudhues

In the tradition of the ‘collage’, I create images, spaces, and environments – both poetic and threatening, balancing on the boundary of dreams and nightmares. The original objects/ sources remain visible, but mingle and fade, making a number of associative interpretations possible. I try to achieve this by transforming everyday objects (and beings) to unexpected proportions and bestowing upon them multiple interpretations through light projections. I am interested in creating different visual layers. Behind the familiar foreground, I am searching for moments of confusion and alienation, for manifestations that may try to ‘break open’ a normal perception. I refer to the apparent static state of everyday affairs, which are, in reality, subject to constant change, to create allegorical, sometimes stirring worlds of pictures which, although man is absent from them, nevertheless refer to his (sometimes confusing) actions and standards within a field of tension spanning emotion, technology, architecture, society and nature.