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Jörg Sasse


2613 2004 from the series tableau, © 2004 Jörg Sasse/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2613 2004 from the series tableau, © 2004 Jörg Sasse/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Jörg Sasse (b. 1962, Germany) was nominated for his exhibition at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany (3 September – 3 November 2004).


5610 2004 from the series tableau, © 2004 Jörg Sasse /VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
5610 2004 from the series tableau, © 2004 Jörg Sassee/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Rather than 'taking' photographs, Jörg Sasse, 'finds' them. The departure point for his enigmatic works are anonymous snapshots, through which he sorts in their thousands. Sasse then works on the vernacular photographs that he is intuitively drawn to, often focussing in on a small detail within an image. He crops, saturates, blurs and pixelates the photographs he selects, creating new picture tableauxs, ones that have strange and yet familiar qualities to them.

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