Michael Wesely

Michael Wesely explores time through ultra-long exposures, layering thousands of images into a single photograph. His work reveals the invisible passage from future to past in slowly unfolding visual impressions.

Leipziger Platz, Berlin (5.8.1999–6.12.2000)
C-Print on UltraSecG paper
70 x 95 cm
1999-2000
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (5.4.1997 – 3.6.1999)
C-Print on UltraSecG paper
160 x 220 cm
1997-1999

Michael Wesely

Michael Wesely explores time through ultra-long exposures, layering thousands of images into a single photograph. His work reveals the invisible passage from future to past in slowly unfolding visual impressions.

Michael Wesely explore le temps par des expositions ultra-longues, superposant des milliers d’images en une seule. Son œuvre révèle le passage invisible du futur au passé dans une impression visuelle progressive.

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Photography takes us back to the past. Pictures from our early years touch us emotionally ; we feel nostalgia as they refer to a time that is no more. German artist Michael Wesely, born in 1963 in Munich, is interested in this inexistent space where the future becomes the past. Since 2012, long, digital exposures from Michael Wesely have given birth to thousands and even millions of individual images which, unlike a film camera, are not placed one behind the other but one above the other. The result is, just as with analogue photographs, a single image that only reveals itself to the viewer gradually.

La photographie nous renvoie au passé. L'artiste allemand Michael Wesely, né en 1963 à Munich, s'intéresse à cet espace inexistant où le futur devient le passé. Depuis 2012, les longues poses numériques réalisées par Michael Wesely donnent naissance à des milliers, voire des millions d'images individuelles qui, contrairement à un appareil argentique, ne sont pas placées les unes derrière les autres, mais les unes au-dessus des autres. Il en résulte, comme pour les photographies analogiques, une image unique qui ne se révèle au spectateur que progressivement.

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