
2017 Fire on the Mountain 140 x 127 cm Analogue photography on Baryta paper, crumpled
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
2017 Analogue photography on Baryta paper
Mahir Jahmal - I FORGOT TO SAY CHEESE
September 21 – October 27, 2017
Opening reception: Thursday September 21, 6.00pm-9.00pm (by invitation only, please RSVP)
Exhibiton dates: September 22, - October 27, 2017
Location: OSME Gallery, Lerchenfelder Strasse 25, 1070 Vienna
I Forgot To Say Cheese
In his most recent photographic work, Mahir Jahmal moves further and further, sometimes even completely liberating his images from a motive. Starting from analogue large format photography, he focuses on the borderlines of this medium. His experimental work in the darkroom allows him to fathom transitions from classic photography to new kinds of artistic expression. Elements of painting techniques enter his work, through crumpling his photographs he achieves plasticity and gives them a relieflike quality. By breaking stereotypes, he invites us to perceive photography in new ways. Urban motives dissolve into graphic structures, allowing us to recognise the basic motive only at a second glance. White marks, angular fissures and blurs became part of craggy landscapes, enhancing their jagged appearance. At times the artist even relinquishes the use of camera and negative, but nevertheless develops impressive and mysterious images through photographic techniques.
Mahir Jahmal, born in 1986 in Vienna, studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.