P-93-10-04, Düsseldorf

A suspicion of photography and a belief in pictures form the basis of Jörg Sasse’s artistic practice. Earlier works were made in the traditional way, later ones using digital image processing. What they have in common is their fragmentary composition with its tectonic strictness, recalling the geometric abstractions of Modernism. Sasse’s highly reflexive use of the computer is often compared with painting. Mostly taking amateur photos as his point of departure, he applies a process of reduction, eliminating the private and the individual to obtain aesthetically independent pictures that eschew discursive insight in favor of the purely visual. The subtle alterations come to the viewer’s attention more by intuition than by analysis, catching the eye as what Sasse himself calls “deliberate ambiguities.” The lines between imaging technologies blur; what remains is enigma and a questioning of the picture per se.