Daniel von Sturmer explores the nature of perception, particularly how context and framing affect the meaning and experience of an artwork. In his videos and photographs the frame of the lens becomes an analogue for the frame of perception, pointing to the limits of the visual language we rely upon to understand and define the world.
Often developed from studio-based experiments and observations, he transforms materials and objects common to everyday experience into props from which philosophical questions can arise. Involving multiple screens and sculptural objects, the experience of looking at an artwork becomes a consciously dynamic interplay between the viewer and the viewed.
Ten Cubed Collection
19 June until 20 August, 2013
Melbourne
The Cinema Complex (Sequence 1) 4, 2011, production still pigment print, 83 x 52cm
Courtesy the artist and Ten Cubed Collection
