Armsrock is an illustrator, a portraiture, and public space is his gallery. His life-sized drawings document the everyday, reflecting blind spots and symbolising the act of simply passing by.

He finds his subjects by observing the happenings on the streets, collecting and sketching what he sees in sketchbooks. At his studio he works with pencil or charcoal, and since 2009 he has also been working with scratching tools on exposed film. The result is drawings that capture, document and reflect snapshots. He glues or projects his portraits onto urban spaces and leaves them to their fate until the paper disintegrates or the film burns in the projector.

LichtRouten Piece: What do people live from?
The ongoing industrialisation of the 19th and 20th centuries changed working conditions as well as residential environments. The original concepts of work and art were transformed into antagonistic systems and art became a subculture drawing the dominant notions of work in modern industrialised society into question. Armsrock’s new portraits depict today’s working and living conditions and are simultaneously critical evaluations of today’s society. They spotlight work as a central culture-shaping category, focusing on its socio-cultural implications.

LichtRouten-location: P.C.Turck I Altenaer Straße 16-18