Stephan Reusse’s artistic work is dedicated to the transfer of physical objects into images as photography, thermography or laser lines. In the confrontation with various image depiction techniques and their aesthetic implications, he searches for picture qualities that minimise the difference in human perception between the physical object, its depiction and the interpretation of such.

His working method is documentary in the best sense of the word; he assembles, inventing nothing. In his work, the exploration and understanding of the object plays just as significant a role as the characteristics of the image production process and the individualism of human perception. Aspects reflecting media technology are the guiding lights in his experimental method.

“Reusse’s laser pieces arise from vectorisations, whereby they follow an actually filmed movement and are not the result of adaptation to a virtual world”, i.e., their credibility emerges from the fact that the digital data movements follow the analogue movements and not their own inherent parameters. Photography and film serve as “interfaces” to digitalisation in the process.

LichtRouten Piece: Mice

Movements as the composition of the relationship of space and time are the focus of the piece, “Mice”. Reusse’s projection material is the product of drawings reducing specific movement patterns down to abstract, sketchy lines. For “Mice”, the actual movement patterns of a mouse are simulated, reproduced and presented on the façade of the “Inselhaus” using a green laser line. The interplay between real architecture and the projected line creates a puzzle in the human perception consisting of tangible and abstract image contents.

LichtRouten-location: Inselhaus I Wilhelmstraße / Karussellplatz 1