Pictures

Mutation 2020

…Through his images, he confronts different structures of reality that profoundly change our perception as spectators. In his works, urban landscapes, architectures, characters or moving objects photographed from a single, fixed point of view, merge and freeze into a single virtual scene that appears authentic but in which time and space become elusive. The association of multiple individual images into a single picture gives rise to the final image whose aesthetic and graphic qualities are due to the abstraction of the motif obtained and the spatio-temporal compression of the subject. Thus, on the borderline between video and photography, Michael Michlmayr captures and assembles everyday scenarios and actions that take place there into a "photographic sequence", creating an ultimate narrative that photographer Duane Michals, the creator of "Real Dreams", would not deny. .[…]

Didier Mandart, Galerie L’angle Handaye France

"The realism of photography creates confusion as to what is real" Susan Sontag