Laznes Binch

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Artist statement

The multimedia stream is oversaturated — overproduction devalues every image within it. I extract images from this stream and rework them until only unrecognizable fragments remain. Original context is disregarded. The origin of an image has no bearing on the method. My aim is the unrecognizably new, the misplaced — something that restores to the viewer the perceptibility stolen by habit: to look and not understand what is before you. The longer the disorientation lasts, the more precise the hit. I use the apparatus against its own program — outside the logic of glossy perfection. The image travels from an overloaded field through a state in which it ceases to be anything — toward a new form. In the finished image I retain low-resolution artifacts, traces of digital processes, analog textures: they constitute the visual code of the work — and simultaneously obstruct recognition. Meaning arises in the gap between what is encrypted and what is discovered. Each work is encrypted twice: by the process of visual transformation of its source and by the date in its title. I encrypt the personal without transmitting it. Each work is a saved file. The date in the title is a timestamp of the moment the work was stopped. For the viewer, the date remains an abstraction that means almost nothing. Should they choose to start from it — they will recall their own. What interests me is the moment of transition from the digital into the physical — print, projection, installation — when the...

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